On Tue, April 21, 2009 6:50 am, Bastien Nocera wrote:
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 23:29 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> So, the shiny new pulseaudio mixer setup in F11 took away my ability to
> tell the panel applet which channel to use. It seems to insist on
> messing with the master. I have a second computer hooked in to the line
> in, so it can share speakers with my main box. I had it set up so the
> master volume was set on maximum, and the panel volume thingy adjusted
> the PCM volume. This allowed me to adjust volumes separately, the
> secondary box stayed at a constant volume and the main box could be
> adjusted freely without affecting the secondary machine.
>
> How do I get this behavior back?
_This_ behaviour, no. Any reasons why you don't use PulseAudio over the
network instead?
I'm afraid that your use of the volume control wasn't really something
we thought about, and I'm not sure that's a use case we're that
interested in catering for.
I think I also rely on this use-case (i.e. telling the mixer which
channel(s) to control).
I forget the exact names, but my laptop has separate volume controls for
the built-in bass and non-bass speakers. In older Fedora releases, this
"just worked". In F9 (I think), the mixer (and volume buttons on the front
of the laptop) started to control only the non-bass speaker volume, so
that the bass volume was always maxed out, which wasn't usable. I had to
configure the mixer to control both the bass and non-bass mixer channels
together (and I think I had to hack the alsa configuration to actually
create the bass mixer channel at all, or something like that)
So, is this all handled in a better (i.e. automatic) fashion now, or is
the lack of channel selection going to be another regression for me?