No "Master" Volume in Ubuntu?
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| alsa-driver (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-media
I currently have a Logitech Z-640 5.1 channel speaker set connected to my the HD Audio outputs on my Ubuntu 7.04 tower. It seems to me that there is no MASTER volume for the sound device. Everything seems to work just fine for the sound. No crackling, no lack of sound, and everything sounds great. Only problem is that when I press the up & down buttons to control my volume on my keyboard, ONLY the "Front" channel is affected. The remaining channels, "Rear," "Center," and "LFE" remain turned all the way up.
In every other OS I have used, the "Front" channel is seperate from the master volume. When you press the vol. up and vol. down buttons, the master volume will move up and down and thus, change the volume for all of the channels available to play sound.
This is not a driver issue because my hardware is working fine. Honestly, I never really noticed the issue until I connected my 5.1 setup.
| Rico Sennrich (rico-sennrich) wrote | #1 |
| Rico Sennrich (rico-sennrich) wrote | #2 |
| Sir Nikon (omnineko) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in alsa-driver: | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
Thank you for your bug report.
Just to make sure this is not a configuration issue: at the bottom of the sound preferences (preferences - sound), you can select which device/track should be controlled by your keyboard. You can first make sure that it is really set to the master track, and if it is, try manually playing around with the settings - if needs be, you can even select multiple channels.