Re: Extension to Volume Control & General Questions

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi Jordan,

at first I belive this is due to some misconfiguration in your alsa-setup.
I don't say its your fault, just that the setup is wrong. If you take the 
mastervolume down, the card should be silent.

Best is to talk to the gnome-media maintainer about this, he is also gstreamer 
developer and usually in irc #gstreamer on freenode.net with the nick 'BBB'.
His name is Ronald Builtje.

One thing that I imagine that can be done, is to see if you can detect such a 
misconfiguration. If that is possible, the user can be notified and guided how 
to correct this.

Ciao
  Stefan
> Since my foray into Linux, there have been a few things that have
> annoyed me and a few more that have made me curious. Firstly, the volume
> control panel applet can only adjust one channel at a time, and my
> master channel only controls the front speakers. So when it's at zero,
> there is still sound from my back speakers. I would like to make it a
> project of mine to fix this to get a better grounding in Linux
> programming, but I'm not sure if it'll be accepted into the CVS. What I
> would like to do is change it so that you can select more than one
> channel to change at a time, and to unify their volume. I don't want to
> step on anyone's feet by coding this, but I would like to help out with
> Gnome, and this is the first thing that I saw that I didn't like and I
> could fix.
>
> Another thing I've wondered about is testing things like the core
> desktop environment or library. It just wouldn't be very practical to
> reinstall Gnome every time one makes a tiny modification, so what would
> be the "routine" in that case?
>
> Sorry if these questions aren't appropriate subject matter for this
> mailing list, feel free to direct me elsewhere. Thank you for your time.
>
> - Jordan
>
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