'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 17/08/09 21:52 did gyre and gimble: > Hi, > > Similar to my last mail but the opposite behaviour is noticed here! > > This could easily be a g-s-d or a g-v-c-a problem, but I'm not sure how > these ones work internally so opinions welcome. I do however suspect > that it's a result of the first play of a role without a stored volume > rule - could be wrong tho'. I tried to verify this via canberra-gtk-play > +console, but it needs X... I've not yet tried some PULSE_PROP style env > var hacking. > > I performed this test a totally fresh user account, at GDM with other > users logged in + git master 8f928b (HEAD at time of writing). > > After logging in g-v-c-a is showing the mute symbol despite the > underlying alsa mixer having been previously confirmed ot having a > sensible value (although with current pulse I'd suspect a 100% > initialisation anyway - even if that is not desirable!) > > The following behaviour can now be observed: > > 1. pavucontrol/g-v-c both show all sliders as 0 including the "system > sounds" slider. > > 2. Running paplay does not restore the volume (so it's silent). > > 3. Setting the device volume in either pavucontrol or g-v-c allows a > paplay to run and be heard. paplay can be run multiple times without a > problem. > > 4. Running canberra-gtk-play -i menu-click (for example) will turn the > device volume down again. paplay is then on silent (the canberra sound > could also be triggered organically via (duh!) clicking on a menu). > > > So there seems to be two problems here: > > 1. Problem with "system sounds" volume being initialised to 0 at first > login (perhaps due to g-v-c-a/g-s-d or perhaps due to the canberra > played login sound?) > 2. The fact that a "system sounds" volume of 0 changes the system > volume. It should be completely separate from it. I suspect it is > interfering with the flat volume logic in some capacity. > > > I hope I've written up these two problems clearly. > > I've got some Mandriva bug references but I doubt they will add to this > at present. Slight follow up on this one too. Seems the rework helped here. The device volume is now initialised to whatever the underlying device's volume is (for a fresh user's first graphical login). The system sounds slider is still set to 0 but at least other sounds work OOTB. I still think this could be a bug tho', but not nearly as serious now. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
