Volume, a kingdom for a volume lever...
To me a phone is not a phone if you cannot adjust the volume during a call. Being able to open a terminal and guessing which lever out of hundreds in the alsamixer is the one handling the volume just won't cut it. I bought my FreeRunner in the beginning of August, and since then I have never been able to use the phone at all as I don't want to share my phone calls with the rest of the world. The high volume also creates an irritating echo to the other caller. I am amazed how much time seems to be spent making GPS, Bluetooth and Wireless work on the phone whilst such a basic function as adjusting the volume seems to be totally forgotten. Then again, maybe Its just me who cannot find this feature in any of the Distributions available... ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Volume, a kingdom for a volume lever...
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Theo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me a phone is not a phone if you cannot adjust the volume during a call. Being able to open a terminal and guessing which lever out of hundreds in the alsamixer is the one handling the volume just won't cut it. I bought my FreeRunner in the beginning of August, and since then I have never been able to use the phone at all as I don't want to share my phone calls with the rest of the world. The high volume also creates an irritating echo to the other caller. I am amazed how much time seems to be spent making GPS, Bluetooth and Wireless work on the phone whilst such a basic function as adjusting the volume seems to be totally forgotten. Then again, maybe Its just me who cannot find this feature in any of the Distributions available... A ticket has been opened for this feature in SHR : http://shr.bearstech.com/trac/ticket/41 But I didn't have any idea when it will be done... ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Volume, a kingdom for a volume lever...
or install zenity and create a /usr/share/applications/Volume.desktop file containg the lines below: [Desktop Entry] Comment=Volume Control Exec=/usr/bin/amixer set PCM `zenity --scale --display=:0.0 --text=Volume --min-value=100 --max-value=255 --value=235` MimeType= Name=.Volume StartupNotify=false Terminal=true TerminalOptions= Type=Application Categories=Application;Utility; Icon=xterm On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 10:18 +0100, gromez wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Theo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me a phone is not a phone if you cannot adjust the volume during a call. Being able to open a terminal and guessing which lever out of hundreds in the alsamixer is the one handling the volume just won't cut it. I bought my FreeRunner in the beginning of August, and since then I have never been able to use the phone at all as I don't want to share my phone calls with the rest of the world. The high volume also creates an irritating echo to the other caller. I am amazed how much time seems to be spent making GPS, Bluetooth and Wireless work on the phone whilst such a basic function as adjusting the volume seems to be totally forgotten. Then again, maybe Its just me who cannot find this feature in any of the Distributions available... A ticket has been opened for this feature in SHR : http://shr.bearstech.com/trac/ticket/41 But I didn't have any idea when it will be done... ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home in Perth! ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Volume, a kingdom for a volume lever...
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:03:34AM +0100, Theo wrote: To me a phone is not a phone if you cannot adjust the volume during a call. Being able to open a terminal and guessing which lever out of hundreds in the alsamixer is the one handling the volume just won't cut it. I bought my FreeRunner in the beginning of August, and since then I have never been able to use the phone at all as I don't want to share my phone calls with the rest of the world. The high volume also creates an irritating echo to the other caller. I am amazed how much time seems to be spent making GPS, Bluetooth and Wireless work on the phone whilst such a basic function as adjusting the volume seems to be totally forgotten. Then again, maybe Its just me who cannot find this feature in any of the Distributions available... I know that there's one in the oven possibly for 2008.11 Rui -- Hail Eris, Hack GNU/Linux! Today is Boomtime, the 30th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Volume, a kingdom for a volume lever...
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:03:34 +0100 Theo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (T) wrote: To me a phone is not a phone if you cannot adjust the volume during a call. Being able to open a terminal and guessing which lever out of hundreds in the alsamixer is the one handling the volume just won't cut it. I bought my FreeRunner in the beginning of August, and since then I have never been able to use the phone at all as I don't want to share my phone calls with the rest of the world. The high volume also creates an irritating echo to the other caller. I am amazed how much time seems to be spent making GPS, Bluetooth and Wireless work on the phone whilst such a basic function as adjusting the volume seems to be totally forgotten. Then again, maybe Its just me who cannot find this feature in any of the Distributions available... How about PyMixer? Changes volume and can also recall/save alsa-state files. all the way down at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Volume -- Petr ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Volume, a kingdom for a volume lever...
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:03:34 +0100 Theo [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: To me a phone is not a phone if you cannot adjust the volume during a call. Being able to open a terminal and guessing which lever out of hundreds in the alsamixer is the one handling the volume just won't cut it. I bought my FreeRunner in the beginning of August, and since then I have never been able to use the phone at all as I don't want to share my phone calls with the rest of the world. The high volume also creates an irritating echo to the other caller. I am amazed how much time seems to be spent making GPS, Bluetooth and Wireless work on the phone whilst such a basic function as adjusting the volume seems to be totally forgotten. Then again, maybe Its just me who cannot find this feature in any of the Distributions available... e already has a mixer gadget - just enable the module (tricky given the config dialog doesnt fit on screen... but thats a matter of time before it's fixed) and then u get a little mixer icon u can press and get a volume slider... :) it's always available then. -- - Codito, ergo sum - I code, therefore I am -- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Volume, a kingdom for a volume lever...
Then again, maybe Its just me who cannot find this feature in any of the Distributions available... On Debian I use the xfce volume applet, it's easy and fast with stylus pen. Look at the screenshot: http://levysantanna.blogspot.com/2008/11/screenshots-debian-com-xfce-no.html []s Levy ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
