gnome-volume-control USB Mic sound preferences

[ericlesoll]

Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon

Ubuntu Lucid alpha 3

I'm using several USB headsets with chip set C-MEDIA and Analogue Headsets. To hear my voice playback without using Pulseaudio loopback module because delay it's too big, in 8.04 and 8.10, I fix it in gnome-volume-control panel preferences. there are 2 fields for microphone :
Playing and recording.
Now the GUI is different there is only one for recording you can select input source it's all, so I can't adjust my playback.
I found a temporary solution using alsamixer, I'm administrator of several classroom and normal users can't each time open alsamixer in terminal mode. It's not friendly.

Above all if I remove legacy sound card in bios to take USB card by default I can't launch alsamixer I get this message : "cannot open mixer : No such file or directory" but it's another bug. Let me know where I must report it ?

Eric

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
 * Could you make clear what else you would want to see happen?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[ericlesoll (ericlesoll)]

Hello,

Thank you for responding so quick.

2010/3/17 Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. Please answer these questions:
>
> * Is this reproducible?
>
Yes,

> * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
>
You plug a USB headset or Analogue you open gnome-volume-control , you can
only adjust capture volume from microphone.

 * Could you make clear what else you would want to see happen?
>
In 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04 in gnome-volume-control in preferences you could
select volume input microphone for recording
or listening. Since 9.10 it's impossible by GUI, I thought it will be fixed
in 10.04 because is regression, we are using that for Open Source Digital
language laboratory based on italc and pulseaudio ( LLSOLL project).
The only way to tune the microphone listening volume is to open Alsamixer in
terminal mode, it is not user-friendly for students and teachers.
There are 2 items in alsamixer for microphone :

   1. Mic : is the loopback of your voice
   2. Capture : is the volume for recording

 Is not user-friendly for students and teachers.

Best regards

Eric

>
> This will help us to find and resolve the problem.
>
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> gnome-volume-control USB Mic sound preferences
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/540168
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> Status in “gnome-media” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon
>
> Ubuntu Lucid alpha 3
>
> I'm using several USB headset with chip set C-MEDIA. To hear my voice
> loopback without using Pulseaudio loopback module because delay it's too
> big, in 8.04 and 8.10, I fix it in gnome-volume-control panel preferences.
> there are 2 fields for microphone :
> Playing and recording.
> Now the GUI is different there is only one for recording you can select
> input source it's all, so I can't adjust my loopback.
> I found a temporary solution using alsamixer, I'm administrator of several
> classroom and normal users can't each time open alsamixer in terminal mode.
> It's not friendly.
>
> Above all if I remove legacy sound card in bios to take USB card by default
> I can't launch alsamixer I get this message : "cannot open mixer : No such
> file or directory" but it's another bug. Let me know where I must report it
> ?
>
> Eric
>
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-media/+bug/540168/+subscribe
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-Eric

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you take a screenshot showing the issue? here the input and output tabs have combo boxes to select the channel to use

[ericlesoll (ericlesoll)]

Hi,

I join several screen-shots showing differences between each version.

I found a solution with gnome-alsamixer for analogue headset I can tune
playback microphone (for monitoring) but it's not available with USB sound
card or headset as you can see in the screen-shot.

Thanks a lot.

-Eric

2010/3/18 Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>

> could you take a screenshot showing the issue? here the input and output
> tabs have combo boxes to select the channel to use
>
> --
> gnome-volume-control USB Mic sound preferences
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/540168
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “gnome-media” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon
>
> Ubuntu Lucid alpha 3
>
> I'm using several USB headsets with chip set C-MEDIA and Analogue Headsets.
> To hear my voice playback without using Pulseaudio loopback module because
> delay it's too big, in 8.04 and 8.10, I fix it in gnome-volume-control panel
> preferences. there are 2 fields for microphone :
> Playing and recording.
> Now the GUI is different there is only one for recording you can select
> input source it's all, so I can't adjust my playback.
> I found a temporary solution using alsamixer, I'm administrator of several
> classroom and normal users can't each time open alsamixer in terminal mode.
> It's not friendly.
>
> Above all if I remove legacy sound card in bios to take USB card by default
> I can't launch alsamixer I get this message : "cannot open mixer : No such
> file or directory" but it's another bug. Let me know where I must report it
> ?
>
> Eric
>
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-media/+bug/540168/+subscribe
>

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-Eric