GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 521281
Scrollers of the volume control doesn't work properly
Last modified: 2018-09-05 10:23:32 UTC
Please describe the problem: My sound card : Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0d8c:0201 C-Media Electronics, Inc. Probably this problem doesn't happen on other cards, anyway I have never heard about it. I can control the volume with 'Speaker 1' , which consists of 6 scrollers. So, when I try to increase or decrease the volume, something strange happens. Even though the channels are blocked, so the volume for all channels should be the same, it's changing. For example when changing channel 1 , value of channel 2 goes to 0 or is jumping in other strange way. It is really difficult to set all of the channels to the same volume, especially to the max. I have tried ubuntu 7.x and 8.x and this problem is there. In other distributions it doesn't exists. Maybe I should write to ubuntu developers but I don't know where. Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? yes Other information:
I have also had this bug for a while. Changing the volume using the gnome volume applet using my scroll wheel or using my multimedia keys will cause the volume levels to jump around sometimes muting the left channel. Alsamixer works fine though. I'm using Gentoo, but this Ubuntu bug describes the same problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-applets/+bug/230088
This bug is still present in 2.22.3 and is very annoying. Any update?
The last code change in gnome-alsamixer happened more than six years ago (Fri Jul 7 2005) according to http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-alsamixer/log/ and emails to the gnome-alsamixer maintainer bounce. Hence I consider this application unmaintained and I might close any remaining open bug reports soon (as part of GNOME Bugzilla Housekeeping).
gnome-alsamixer is not under active development anymore (see bug 796783). Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.