I am terribly sorry, but there was a serious typo: I use MATE on Debian testing and the sound does **not** work correctly after the libasound2-plugins package was upgraded 1.1.6-1 to 1.1.7-2
Soramichi On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 14:36:51 +0900 Soramichi Akiyama <akiy...@m.soramichi.jp> wrote: > X-Debbugs-Cc: akiy...@m.soramichi.jp > Package: mate-control-center > Version: 1.20.3-1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > I use MATE on Debian testing and the sound does work correctly after the > libasound2-plugins package was upgraded from 1.1.6-1 to 1.1.7-2 via recent > apt-get upgrade. > Especially, the "sound" utility included in mate-control-center seems not > working, maybe because of the changes introduced in the alsa side. > > What happens: > - The "sound" utility in mate-control-center cannot tweak settings for the > sound cards, although all the cards are properly listed. > - More precisely, the "Hardware" tab shows all installed sound cards, but > the "Settings for the selected device" column does not show anything for any > card selected. > - It also does not show some menus such as the one for testing the selected > card, which used to be there. > - Some applications cannot play sound even when I manually modify > /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf to use the card I want to. > - Totem and VLC (with the "default" sound card selected) work, but Firefox > does not play sound. > - The "Applications" tab of the "sound" utility does not show anything even > when sound is playing. > > I guess the reason might be that alsa-plugins have installed new config files > as shown in their change log > (https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/a/alsa-plugins/alsa-plugins_1.1.7-2_changelog) > and MATE has to adapt to their changes in order to properly configure them. > > Soramichi > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: buster/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.19.1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages mate-control-center depends on: > ii caja-common 1.20.2-5 > ii desktop-file-utils 0.23-4 > ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.28.1-1 > ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-1 > ii libc6 2.27-8 > ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-1 > ii libcairo2 1.16.0-1 > ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-6 > ii libcanberra0 0.30-6 > ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.10-1 > ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-3 > ii libdconf1 0.30.0-1 > ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-1 > ii libfreetype6 2.8.1-2 > ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.0+dfsg-6 > ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.1-2 > ii libglib2.0-bin 2.58.1-2 > ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.1-2 > ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2 > ii libmarco-private1 1.20.2-1 > ii libmate-desktop-2-17 1.20.3-2 > ii libmate-menu2 1.20.1-1 > ii libmate-slab0 1.20.3-1 > ii libmate-window-settings1 1.20.3-1 > ii libmatekbd4 1.20.2-1 > ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-3 > ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-3 > ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b3 > ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-5 > ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1 > ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.15-1 > ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2 > ii libxi6 2:1.7.9-1 > ii libxklavier16 5.4-3 > ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b1 > ii libxss1 1:1.2.3-1 > ii marco-common 1.20.2-1 > ii mate-control-center-common 1.20.3-1 > ii mate-desktop 1.20.3-2 > ii mate-icon-theme 1.20.2-1 > ii mate-menus 1.20.1-1 > ii mate-settings-daemon 1.20.3-1 > > mate-control-center recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages mate-control-center suggests: > ii gconf2 3.2.6-5 > > -- no debconf information