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.
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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?
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[Gutsy] Usability problems in gnome-volume-control
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138989
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