sound turns off when switching to console

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Binary package hint: gnome-media

Hello! I’m using Natty, and I noticed that sounds (e.g. music) caused by X applications turns off when switching to the text console (e.g., Alt+F1).

I suspect this is intended behavior caused by a setting somewhere, not a bug in Pulseaudio or anything similar. That is why I’m entering this bug under “gnome-media”: the application that is presented to the user to control sound (both via the panel sound applet and via menu/preferences/sound) is “gnome-volume-control”, installed by “gnome-media”, and that application doesn’t offer any way of altering this setting, nor indeed any mention of it. I believe it should, especially since this is new behavior. (At least I don’t remember seeing it in earlier versions of Ubuntu.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-media 2.32.0-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic 2.6.38.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 24 15:44:19 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-media
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-02 (22 days ago)