gnome-sound-properties no default mixer track selected

[Nicolò Chieffo]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

In my laptop, from the Jaunty live cd, when I open gnome-sound-properties the default mixer tracks option is misconfigured:
"Device" is set to "Capture: HDA intel - stac92xx analog (PulseAudio..."
and in the list nothing is selected.

I think that the default option should be "Playback: HDA intel - stac92xx analog (PulseAudio..." with "Master" selected

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-020630rc3-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, could you take a screenshot showing the issue? Do you mean that volume control key and the applet don't work out of the box?

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Yes, here's the screenshot (I also added the corresponding gconf keys
so you can see better)

Instead of "Capture" "Playback" should be selected, and also "Master"
should be selected

the volume keys work, but they change the ALSA MASTER mixer, instead
of the PULSEAUDIO MASTER mixer.
In my card these 2 mixers behave completely different: if you like,
see bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366603

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

using alsa by default is a choice since pulseaudio is not working great for everybody yet

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

If so, why alsa master is not selected? this is clearly a bug. It's a coincidence that it works as expected

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

oh, your issue is the minor graphical bug that the only line available is not displayed color, ok let's call that a bug

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

No, my issue is that the default mixer is the pulseaudio _capture_
device, instead of the alsa mixer.

It selects the alsa mixer only because "Master" is not selected.
If for an error you click on "Master" without changing to "alsa" or
"playback" the volume keys won't work.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

ok, to confirm and debug by somebody having a clue about the channel selection in alsa or pulseaudio that's probably due to those rather than the GNOME interface

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

Ok, but where does gnome find the default values
gnome-sound-properties or gnome-settings-daemon? It can be that it
does not detect the audio options in a correct way

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the code is in gnome-sound-properties but it probably only uses gstreamer or alsa for that

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you try if that's still an issue in karmic?

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I don't know, there's no more this GUI in karmic

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

let's close the bug then since it doesn't apply to current version