Re: gnome-volume-control

[Nauni <lists wagner-www de>]

Hello,
thanks for your answer.

I use the current ubuntu version (11.4) with all updates. The gnome
desktop has the version 2.32.1 and is the newest official release
version from ubuntu. If I have a look at gnome.org - 2.32 is also the
newest version - correct?

Do you mean bugfixes for 2.32? Does Ubuntu need a newer bugfix-version
of 2.32 to fix these problems?

Currently I don't know how to build a gnome desktop myself and want to
solve this problem very soon. Do you know the needed commands?

Thanks!


Am Mittwoch, den 13.07.2011, 15:50 +0100 schrieb Bastien Nocera: 
> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 16:43 +0200, Nauni wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have one problem while using gnome. My laptop has a quite bad internal
> > sound card. Because of that I bought a usb sound card. That works very
> > good but one problem is getting on my nerves.
> > 
> > With "gnome-volume-control" I define my usb card and it works. I can use
> > the applet to raise or reduce the volume. But often I use my laptop on
> > the way without usb sound card. The internal device is used - perfect.
> > But the next time I plug in my USB sound device the control does not
> > switch back to the usb and stays at internal device.
> 
> Use a new enough version of GNOME with PulseAudio support and it will
> work as you expect.
> 
> > Every second or third boot I need to reconfigure that ... this annoys me
> > very much. :-( This is one point KDE is better, because they have a
> > order that does not change and if first device is not present the second
> > is automatically choosen. If the first device appear again the first is
> > used again.
> > 
> > Because of that I'm searching for a solution. I would like to create a
> > script that looks every X minutes for the possible devices and if a USB
> > device is present this should be used. I'm missing the correct command
> > for that.
> > 
> > 1.) getting possible cards (I only know the way with 
> > 	cat /proc/asound/cards
> >     or
> > 	aplay -l
> >     )
> >     Is there a better command for that?
> > 2.) How can I set the default output device for the gnome environment?
> 
> Again, we've already solved those problems, and they are when using
> PulseAudio. If it fails to set the default sound card back to the USB
> sound card when you plug it back in, then you should file a bug against
> PulseAudio with your distribution.
> 
> > I hope someone can help me!
> 
> Cheers