Can't toggle audio recording for devices in Volume Control applet to 'on' state

Bug #290543 reported by dcarpenter
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME media utilities
Fix Released
Medium
gnome-media (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-volume-manager

Toggling audio recording on for devices in the recording tab of the Volume Control applet is functioning incorrectly

[What I expected to happen]
When toggling a device to the 'on' state, I expected the setting to be saved after closing and reopening the Volume Control applet.

[What happened instead]
All devices that I toggled to 'on' were reverted back to the off state after closing and reopening the Volume Control applet.

I believe that this is a display error, as I am able to record from the microphone if I toggle it on in alsa-mixer even if it is displayed as toggled 'off' in the Volume Control applet

lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

gnome-volume-manager:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.24.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     2.24.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages

lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to PCI to CSA Bridge (rev 02)
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R360 NJ [Radeon 9800 XT]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 NJ [Radeon 9800 XT] (Secondary)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
03:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
03:04.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 04)
03:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)

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dcarpenter (dcarpenter85) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for your bug report, what do you toggle on exactly? do you speak about muting and unmuting the volume?

Changed in gnome-applets:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Bartek (tschew) wrote :

I can confirm the stated behaviour on my machine as well. I believe dcarpenter was referring to the "Toggle audio recording from capture" button [ the 50s style microphone in his screengrab ]. When you click the microphone the X is removed but upon closing and reloading gnome-volume-control the X reappears, suggesting that the input cannot be used for recording. However, it works.

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dcarpenter (dcarpenter85) wrote :

Yes, Bartek is correct. I click the button and the X is removed, however upon reopening the X is back. And as he stated, the input CAN be used for recording, it is just unclear for the average user if the input is indeed enabled.

Changed in gnome-media:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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dah bien-hwa (dahbien-hwa) wrote :

I see the same faulty behaviour in gnome-volume-control, meaning the "Toggle audio recording from Capture" always is off (the state with the white X on red ground on it) when opening the window.
I can't reproduce it right now, but it seemed like the state of that setting had some effect as to whether I could record something on my system or not, one or two hours ago today. But after also playing around a little with alsamixer, the microphone now always works, regardless of this setting.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
Changed in gnome-media:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in gnome-media:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in gnome-media:
status: New → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in gnome-media:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-media - 2.25.5-0ubuntu1

---------------
gnome-media (2.25.5-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Add desktop files and icons for gnome-volume-control
    - Add a new sound theme
    - Fix some of the resizing on startup in the volume control
    - Simplify the sound theme selection
    - Fix a few positioning problems in the volume applet
    - Add a mute toggle item in the volume applet (lp: #290543)
    - Make the volume slider instantaneous
    - Fix "no applications" message when there are applications
    - Fix the volume applet not showing up in some cases (lp: #314966)
    - Add a close button to the sound capplet
    - Hide sound events from the applications tab
    - Fix scrolling with the mouse wheel going in the wrong direction
      (lp: #317751)
  * debian/control.in:
    - build-depends on libxml2-dev
  * debian/patches/06_autoconf.patch:
    - new version update

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:32:11 +0100

Changed in gnome-media:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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j.benes (j-benes) wrote :

Sorry to re-open this bug, but on Ubuntu Jaunty, gnome-media ver. 2.26-0ubuntu3 and the bad behavoiour of invalid state (as described above) still exists.

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Adam Dorsey (adorsey) wrote :

Also confirming that this bug exists in Jaunty, using gnome-media 2.26.0-0ubuntu3.

Changed in gnome-media (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

don't reopen closed bug but open a new bug if you have a similar issue on jaunty

Changed in gnome-media (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Thorsten Staerk (dev-staerk) wrote :

This bug affects me as well. I cannot see from the above descriptions how it would be fixed. Which gnome-media package version do I need so it is fixed in Intrepid?

Changed in gnome-media:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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