gnome-volume-control problems

rahulthewall · Veteran Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 1264 Location: Zürich

The problem is that when I try to change the volume using the application gnome-volume-control, the two channels become disjoint. The left channel gets muted and I can only change the volume of the right channel. Then I have to click on the little icon at the bottom of the volume level bars to join the two channels again and keep messing with it for sometime until I can get both the channels at the same level.
Now, I have had this problem for a long time and I thought this was an issue with my alsa configuration. That was until I thought of changing the volume with alsa mixer. There everything works fine without a problem, therefore the problem only seems confined to gnome-voume-control. If someone can tell me what might be the issue I would be really thankful for this issue is really irritating me.
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Desintegr · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:06 am Post subject:

I had this issue with GNOME 2.22 and a 2.6.25 kernel.

I have not found a real solution, but there is a workaround :
Unbind the volume keys in keyboard shortcuts configuration, then rebind these keys with a custom command like amixer -q sset Master,0 5%+ or amixer -q sset Master,0 5%-. Use gconf-editor for this.
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rahulthewall · Veteran Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 1264 Location: Zürich

yeah, this solves the problem, but I just wanted to know whether you know how can I associate the custom keys to Fn + PgUp/PgDown in gconf-editor.
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