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Bug 329923 - Hard to understand how to setup the microphone
Hard to understand how to setup the microphone
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-media
Classification: Deprecated
Component: gst-mixer
2.13.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome media maintainers
gnome media maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-02-04 20:09 UTC by Vincent Untz
Modified: 2015-01-19 11:50 UTC
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Description Vincent Untz 2006-02-04 20:09:07 UTC
So, I just bought a microphone. I tried hard to make it work and after a while, I read that I should also enable the "Capture" slide.

This is really not intuitive since it was hidden by default. I'd expect that when I change the slide for the Microphone, if Capture is disabled, it gets enabled (maybe with the maximum value).
Comment 1 Marc-Andre Lureau 2008-01-22 01:40:29 UTC
Alsa mixer does not expose the relation of the underlying controls.

Ideally, what you express is really what we all want (what microsoft call "flat volume control"): manipulate audio devices as objects, without taking care of the internal aspects of stuffs: routing, switches, volumes...

gnome-volume-control, however, does not have any policy: it just exposes what ALSA mixer API offers.

IMHO, there are many things to fix before we get this bug fixed.

1. the alsa/hal stack should expose a high-level representation of the mixer interface, with the relation between inter-controls & pcm interfaces.

2. a daemon, could be pulseaudio, or something like HAL, or a better alsa-lib??, should implement the logic to make the routing option correct (volume level, panning, effects...): you would only manipulates audio end-points.

but this is still a dream..
Comment 2 Marc-Andre Lureau 2008-01-22 01:48:16 UTC
Of course, this is not just about ALSA,

usually sound driver developpers don't even know how the sound chip will be integrated nowadays: a switch can have different meaning..
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2015-01-19 11:50:09 UTC
gnome-media has been obsolete since the release of GNOME 3, nearly 4 years ago.
Furthermore, the gnome-volume-control program in gnome-media has been replaced
by the Sound panel in gnome-control-center.

The new Settings panel should not be affected by the bugs you filed, however, please
make sure to file new bugs against the gnome-control-center product.