[Bug 904043] New: Scale of volume is wrong
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904043 Bug ID: 904043 Summary: Scale of volume is wrong Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: 13.2 Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Xfce Assignee: bnc-team-xfce@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: bluedzins@wp.pl QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- OS 12.3 -- no problems. OS 13.2 -- the scale of volume is wrong. It means: 0-50% -- it is almost mute 50%-70% -- pretty silent sound 70%-90% -- normal volume, audible, and pleasant for the ear 90%-100% -- somewhat loud, but nothing extreme So it seems, the scale is shifted by around ~30%. What is now 100%, previously was around 70-80%, the part 80-100% is completely missing, and current 0-50% is useless, because at 50% you can start barely hearing anything (so if you put 20% or 40%, there is no real difference at all, because there is no sound produced). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Guido Berhörster
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Maciej Pilichowski
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Guido Berhörster
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Maciej Pilichowski
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Guido Berhörster
"if you install"
Sure, I clicked "install", but the selection is not mine, this is the
The default installation when you select the Xfce desktop pattern does not include pulseaudio.
default setup. Don't you think default setup should be working properly?
Yes, and in fact an Xfce default installation does work "properly".
If pavucontrol, as you wrote, works, then include it it default XFCE setup instead of gmixer.
gmixer is not part of the default Xfce installation, xfce4-mixer and its panel applet are. pavucontrol only works with pulseaudio and does not provide a panel plugin or system tray applet, two good reasons not to make it the default. The situation is somewhat unfortunate that the Xfce project does not provide a mixer that work with both plain Alsa and pulseaudio, but that's the way it is currently. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #7 from Maciej Pilichowski
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--- Comment #8 from Guido Berhörster
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--- Comment #9 from Maciej Pilichowski
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--- Comment #10 from Guido Berhörster
Something is wrong here, I installed OS 13.2 on another computer (default install), then I added KDE 3.5 as well.
The sound system AFAIK is ALSA, and I tried Kmix from 3.5 and 4.1 (KDE),
Please double check pulseaudio isn't running via pgrep -af pulseaudio.
kamix, xfce4-mixer, I am out of ideas what should I try more, and the same thing happens. All of them show shifted volume.
For example, in alsamixer (console app), the volume is set to 50%, but in all GUI mixers is shown as 75%.
(The real value is 50% judging by the actual audio output).
From https://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/kmix/ it seems kmix directly uses ALSA, xfce4-mixer uses ALSA via gstreamer. So if two independent mixer implementations on top of ALSA exhibit this problem then it might be a problem either in ALSA or the underlying driver, open a new bug against ALSA with the above comment and attach the output generated by /usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh
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