pulseaudio-module-lirc : NO Notifications on screen

[Fabio Albieri]

Binary package hint: notify-osd

I've successfully configured Karmic to change volume via my MCE remote, LIRC.
The only missing piece is ON SCREEN NOTIFICATIONS:

- When I press volume+ / volume- on keyboard, the notification comes up nicely as it should. OK.

- When I press volume+ / volume- on REMOTE, volume goes up/down, but NO notification is shown on screen. BUG.

In my opinion, very important piece for those who use Ubuntu as a living room mediacenter.

ProblemType: Bug
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: living 1840 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xefff4000 irq 29'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC1200'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0888,103c2a65,00100101'
   Controls : 31
   Simple ctrls : 19
Date: Thu Nov 12 10:48:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pulseaudio-module-lirc 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1887): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1887): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1912): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1940): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
mtime.conffile..etc.pulse.daemon.conf: 2009-11-12T09:33:55.216262
mtime.conffile..etc.pulse.default.pa: 2009-11-12T10:16:58.051574

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it seems that whatever is changing the volume is not using libnotify correctly, not a notify-osd bug there

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[mpw (matthiaspeterw)]

This bug is still active. The lirc-module does not launch a notification when the volume level is changed.

Workaround: Configure irxevent to launch the volume keys instead of changing volume directly like discribed here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1086023&p=10830343#post10830343

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) reached end-of-life on April 30, 2011.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please upgrade to the latest version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pulseaudio (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]