This affects Gutsy. I've clarified the original report. ** Summary changed:
- Input Source boxes are unlabelled in gnome-volume-control + [Gutsy] Usability problems in gnome-volume-control ** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-media - I find that the correct mixer settings are extremely difficult to arrive - at using gnome-volume-control -- the process often takes me several - minutes of frustrating trial and error after each reboot or after waking - from suspend, both of which seem to lose the mixer settings (bug - #37736). The most glaring problem is that the Options tab for my HDA - Intel on-board sound chipset (specs below) has three input boxes all - labelled the same ("Input Source"), but apparently controlling different - capture channels. The status bar output is also incorrect, stating - "Volume of right channel on PCM" irrespective of the input box selected. + 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 Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs