Garrett D'Amore : > Michael Schuster wrote: >> I upgraded my U40 to build 116 from the internal ips repository this >> morning; before that, I was running 2009.06 (build 111b). I'm using >> gnome as my desktop environment, no special settings AFAICT. >> >> I've noticed these changes: >> >> - the buttons on the keyboard don't have any effect anymore, apart >> from showing a volume bar at 100%. The bar doesn't change, nor does >> that volume of what I'm hearing. This is the only thing that I find >> annoying. I suspect some user-level binary is not updated.
Could you please try the Boomer tarball at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/opensound/files/boomer-rc3-2009-04-15.tar.gz? 1. untar the files 2. run "./installer" 3. reboot. > > I've heard this too, I wonder if its a new bug in 115 or 116. > >> >> - if I select "open volume control" from the volume control applet, >> the active device is shown as "audio810#0 (OSS v4 Audio Mixer)". >> While I did have oss installed at one time, I couldn't find anything >> that it is still around. Controls are responsive though. >> If I select "Unkown volume control 1 (Sun Audio Mixer)", I can't >> control any volume settings with the sliding bar. > > That's because in b115 and later you have to use the OSSv4 mixer which > is now bundled as part of the stack. Solaris audio was updated as part > of the Boomer. > >> >> - If I turn the volume up fairly high (I have very small speakers and >> no power adapter, so all I get is the power from the audio line), and >> the volume of the music itself also increases, I get a little noise >> as well - I don't remember getting that previously. > > Possibly this is due to a bug in audiohd -- audiohd has had a number > of changes over the past few weeks, and quite frankly I've not been > able to keep up with all of them. I think Michael's audio is not audiohd but audio810 according to his description. :-) Regards, Yangrong > >> >> a) is all of the above "normal"? > > Partly. > >> b) if no, what do I need to do? > > Try the latest build 117 bits if you can. File bug reports against any > items still outstanding. > > - Garrett >> >> thx >> Michael > > _______________________________________________ > opensound-discuss mailing list > opensound-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensound-discuss
