On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 14:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 12:59 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:51:55AM -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > > > I did a clean install of Fedora 12 and realized > > > that pavucontrol was not installed by default. > > > I have two sound cards and I only got sound when > > > I manually installed pavucontrol and used it. > > > > Any reason? > > > pavucontrol is regarded as advance tool, but also partly > > obsolete. Current gnome-volume-control superseded most of > > its functionality: controlling different streams volume, > > switching profile, outputs, fallback devices. > > The new gnome-volume-control is so cut-down it's not useful to me. In > the quest to be more Mac-like in removing mixer controls No, it's in a quest of providing *solutions* to user's problems, and not blindly showing everything the software and the hardware can do. > (and not even > having any obvious "advanced" mode), I now have a choice of no audio or > having full volume LFE output *and* whatever mixer level I have set for > the master output. The sub-woofer setting works fine here, what's the problem? > alsamixer works fine, but then I can't use the volume > sliders on my desktop and it gets rather awkward. > > I still pine for the days of isapnpdump when I had to do all the heavy > lifting by hand, but it worked 100% of the time. You can still do all the heavy lifting you want. Install the old gst-mixer, or whatever GUI alsa mixer, just don't expect it to integrate with the desktop. Cheers -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
