These are exactly the issues I am still experiencing. I am glad, at least, that the problem seems consistent from person to person :)
Unfortunately, I don't have time right now to do any additional testing, even with LiveCDs... Ethan On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:26 AM, edschofield <edschofi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was wrong. Not only is this not fixed, it is not even consistent in > Hardy. > > - Checking and unchecking various checkboxes in the Volume Control > Preferences dialog causes additional sliders to appear in the Playback, > Recording and Options tabs somewhat randomly. For example, after some > fiddling with the Input Source checkboxes in Preferences, between one > and three Input Source text fields appear in the Options tab, all > indistinguishable but apparently controlling different channels. > Unclearing the Input Source checkboxes in Preferences does not remove > the entries reliably. > > - Other usability bugs are present, like the Preferences dialog having > checkboxes for not only the expected "Line-in", "Front Mic", > "Microphone", but also "IEC958 Capture", "Capture", "Capture 1", > "Capture 2", and three identical "Input Source" entries. The hardware > itself doesn't appear to have more than the first three input-related > sockets. > > I'll test this on Jaunty, as Lionel requested... > > -- > [Gutsy] Usability problems in gnome-volume-control > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138989 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “gnome-media” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: gnome-media > > The Options tab in gnome-volume-control has at least two usability problems: > > (1) The most glaring problem is that the Options tab for HDA Intel on-board > sound chipsets (specs below) has three input boxes all labelled the same > ("Input Source"), but apparently controlling different capture channels. > > (2) While on the Options tab, the status bar output is incorrect, saying > "Volume of right channel on PCM", which bears no relation to any selections > made. > > Screenshots attached below. > > ---------------- > > Audio is from the Intel G965 chipset. lspci -vv gives: > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio > Controller (rev 02) > Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 820a > Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- > Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22 > Region 0: Memory at ff9f4000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] > Capabilities: <access denied> > > I suspect the support from alsa 1.0.14 for the onboard Intel sound chipset > may be better than that from the obsolete version of alsa (1.0.13) still in > Gutsy. Would upgrading alsa fix problem (1) above for free? > -- [Gutsy] Usability problems in gnome-volume-control https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138989 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
