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Xubuntu Hardy: "mic select" option doesn't work in xfce4-mixer (Ensoniq ES1371)

Bug #258129 reported by Kari Aliranta on 2008-08-15

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Xfce4 Mixer	Fix Released	Unknown	xfce-bugs #4691
	xfce4-mixer (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xfce4-mixer

Package version: xfce4-mixer 4.4.2-2ubuntu2

Description: Ensoniq ES1371 is a sound card with a single microphone input. Both alsamixer and xfce4-mixer show a setting named "mic select" (with options for TWO mics, mic1 and mic2), but the setting can actually be changed only via alsamixer - or at least the setting has any effect only via alsamixer. This is bad, as mic1 is the only option with which the mic works, and for some reason the mic setting sometimes changes on its own.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start alsamixer from the command line, and change the "mic select" setting. Observe the microphone working/not working when you change the setting.

2. Quit the alsamixer and start the xfce4-mixer. Play with the "mic select" setting and obserse it having no effect.

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Kari Aliranta (kpaliran) wrote on 2008-08-15:

alsa-info.txt Edit (16.3 KiB, text/plain)

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote on 2008-12-07:

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation.
I can confirm this behavior of the mic controls. There is no way to unmute the mic using xfce4-mixer unless it is first turned on using alsamixer. After turning it on in alsamixer, the input volume can be adjusted using the xfce4-mixer.

This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4691

Changed in xfce4-mixer:
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Triaged

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote on 2009-02-19:

------- Comment #1 From <email address hidden> 2009-01-11 16:29:13 UTC (-) [reply] -------

I think I fixed it in the 4.4 branch now ... Please report...

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Jaunty Jackalope. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.