Problem with sound volume
Julien Olivier
julo at altern.org
Wed Aug 25 11:37:58 UTC 2004
Hi
I've just installed FC2, and immediately upgraded it to yesterday's
Rawhide.
Apart from a few glinches that I've reported to bugzilla, I'm
experiencing a strange bug.
My laptop is a Fujitsu/Siemens Lifebook S6210. It doesn't have any
hardware way to control the sound volume. So, I tried to change the
volume using the "Volume Control" applet, but it failed.
I went to the applet's preferences and changed the audio channel from
"volume" to "PCM". After that, I could control the volume.
Later on, I noticed that my laptop had special keys to control the
volume. As expected, they didn't work right out of the box.
So, I opened the "keyboard shortcuts" preferences and associated said
keys to the "volume mute", "volume down" and "volume up" sound
functions.
After pressing the keys, a graphic appeared of my screen showing that I
was muting, pumping down or pumping up the volume. The only problem is
that those functions control the "volume" channel, not the "PCM"
channel, and are - consequently - useless for me.
So, my questions are:
- Why can't I change the volume by controlling the "volume" channel ?
Is it a bug that should be filed ? Against which package ? Or is it a
hardware limitation that can't be detected ?
- Is there a way to change the action of the "volume mute", "volume
down", "volume up" keyboard shortcuts so that they control the "PCM"
channel instead of "volume" channel.
Thanks !
--
Julien Olivier <julo at altern.org>
More information about the test
mailing list