pulseaudio volume control applet can't distinguish between multiple instances of the same device

[Joshua Turner]

Binary package hint: gnome-volume-manager

When multiple instances of the same sound device are connected (in my case, three identical Logitech USB audio dongles), gnome-volume-control only shows the first device as selectable for either input or output via PulseAudio.

This same bug existed in Jaunty's volume control applet, but was marked WONTFIX since ALSA was being deprecated.

The only workaround I have is to bypass Pulse entirely and use command-line ALSA tools.

I suspect this issue may run as deep as module-udev-detect, since looking at the PulseAudio Manager shows only one module-alsa-card entry for the given device type.

Also note that connecting multiple USB devices from different manufacturers works fine -- the issue only manifests itself if the devices connected are identical.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

could you take an screenshot of that volume control?

[Joshua Turner (jturner-handshape)]

As requested...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. Thanks in advance!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. A new version of GNOME Media is available in both Lucid and Maverick and we are wondering if this is still reproducible in any of those versions, May you please test and give us of feedback about it? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.