On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:36:01AM +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote: > Dne Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:12:38 +0100 Michael Schwendt napsal(a): > > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:38:15 +0100, Michal wrote: > > > > > Dne Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:05:28 -0200 Paulo Cavalcanti napsal(a): > > > > Thanks for the explanation. > > > > > > > > At least 3 applications are not restoring the volumes: > > > > > > > > xmms, mplayer and audacious. > > > > > > Interesting. Maybe these programs try to be too clever and force the > > > volume themselves. > > > > It's not an attempt at being "too clever", but several upstream > > developers feel lost in what they have to do or what they have not to > > do to get something right. Temporarily, Audacious devlopers have > > dropped their "pulse_audio" driver (originally from XMMS) even, since > > they were of the impression that "it didn't work anyway". Ubuntu > > users currently feel punished with Pulse Audio. With a first bunch of > > fixes [for volume issues in Fedora 12 Rawhide, volume decreased for > > every new song], the driver was restored again for Audacious 2.2 > > development. With more recent changes in Pulse Audio, it seems, more > > changes are necessary. But Audacious 2.1 cannot reflect external > > volume level changes in its UI anyway. Its volume slider cannot move > > for volume level changes made with external tools. Only the next > > release can do that, and it suffers from new bugs (such as a bug in > > alsa-lib that will require an update in Fedora, too). > > Thanks for the explanation. Before I saw your reply, I played with > audacious-plugins and made a kludge to prevent it from forcing 100 % > volume on startup. It probably breaks something else, I haven't really > tested it too much. Mplayer needs similiar patch: http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2009-October/077999.html -- Tomasz Torcz ,,If you try to upissue this patchset I shall be seeking xmpp: zdzichubg@xxxxxxxxx an IP-routable hand grenade.'' -- Andrew Morton (LKML) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
