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Bug 553210 - [oss4mixer] reports incorrect volume percent
[oss4mixer] reports incorrect volume percent
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gst-plugins-bad
0.10.x
Other All
: Normal minor
: 0.10.8
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-09-22 05:07 UTC by Robert Hollencamp
Modified: 2008-10-29 16:38 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22



Description Robert Hollencamp 2008-09-22 05:07:59 UTC
Please describe the problem:
When using OSS4 (tried both stable and 4.1RC), GNOME's volume applet reports the volume of vmix0-vol (the master channel) to be something like 4769%. You can't use the mixer to set the volume to anything other than full and 0.

Workarounds are to use ALSA or OSS4's mixer (ossmix & ossxmix), but it would be nice if I could use OSS4 (which works better for my soundcard than ALSA) and have my multimedia keys & gnome audio OSD work.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install OSS4
2. Set GNOME's audio to go through OSS
3. Check the volume of the master channel


Actual results:
volume is reported as a large percentage (>100%), and you can't use the mixer to set the volume to anything but full or 0

Expected results:
you get a percentage from 0-100%, and you can set the volume to whatever you want in between

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Tim-Philipp Müller 2008-09-25 19:46:45 UTC
What's the output of

  $ gst-inspect-0.10 oss4mixer | grep Version

?
Comment 2 Tim-Philipp Müller 2008-10-07 20:35:53 UTC
Robert: ping?
Comment 3 Tim-Philipp Müller 2008-10-13 18:30:14 UTC
No reply for >3 weeks, closing as INCOMPLETE. Robert: please re-open if you can provide the information requested. For what it's worth, I think this bug is fixed in the upcoming release of gst-plugins-bad (0.10.9)

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!
Comment 4 Robert Hollencamp 2008-10-29 03:57:24 UTC
sorry about the lack of response, I've been using vista (yuk) for the last while

you can mark the problem as resolved/fixed, works fine now due to some combination of upgrades to kernel, oss, gnome, and/or gstreamer
Comment 5 Tim-Philipp Müller 2008-10-29 16:37:10 UTC
> you can mark the problem as resolved/fixed, works fine now due to some
> combination of upgrades to kernel, oss, gnome, and/or gstreamer

Great, thanks for confirming.