gnome-volume-control does not allow to configure necessary mixer settings such as the PCM volume.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNOME media utilities |
Unknown
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Medium
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gnome-media (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-media
The new gnome-volume-
I agree that all these settings are to be done once in a lifetime, and appreciate a lot the new, very clean interface, but it's impossible that a machine guesses the correct setup. A way to configure these settings at least once without resorting to alsamixer is needed. Example: a laptop with low-quality speakers will need pcm set almost to the maximum to maximize the volume, while a 5+1 speaker system connected to a good sound card will need pcm at about 70% so that distortion will be unlikely.
Also (but the problem above is enough IMHO) there are many switches in soundcards which are a "trial and error" system, e.g. to enable 5+1, 3d, digital input, mic autogain etc. I dislike all of that, but it's reality, we can not act like these problems do not exist. I typically set them only once for each new installation, but the interface for doing that needs to be discoverable by all users. If you want alsamixer to be the only way, then you should link alsamixer to the volume-control for discoverability.
Changed in gnome-media: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in gnome-media (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | removed: regression-potential |
Changed in gnome-media: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | New → Unknown |
Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/Bugs/ Upstream/ GNOME)