volume applet don't work on my laptop

Ok i see the problem.
The applet change the volume for the headphone and not the speaker.
If i open the volume control and change the volume of the speaker it works.
Any idea why the applet is set on the headphone and not the speaker?

maybe something similar to bug #45345?

Yep, it seems to be the same kind of problem.
It would be a gst bug so?

I just tested with a Edgy live and don't have this problem, so it's a regression.

Indeed, I can confirm that this is a regression. Guillaume and I bought the same laptop at the same time, only I installed edgy (I'm less adventurous than Guillaume). The applet works fine for me.

reassigning to gstreamer, gnome-applets didn't change since edgy, Guillaume, do you have your feisty up to date?

Sebastien, sure i have. :-)

What's the output of "amixer --device=default" on that machine?

# amixer --device=default
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 43
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 38 [88%] [-7.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 38 [88%] [-7.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 240 [94%] [-3.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 240 [94%] [-3.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 23
  Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 43
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 39 [91%] [-6.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 39 [91%] [-6.00dB] [on]

Nicolas, what's the output of "amixer --device=default" on your box?

Ok, there definitely is some kind of bug here... not sure if it's alsa or gstreamer though.

I wonder which volume should've been chosen instead of headphone... PCM? There definitely is something like Master or Front missing here...

Daniel, do you have an idea what one is supposed to do with alsa here?

Here's the output you asked:

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 43
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 15 [35%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 15 [35%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 255 [100%]
  Front Right: Playback 255 [100%]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
  Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Capture channels: Mono
  Mono: Capture [off]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive
  Capture exclusive group: 0
  Capture channels: Mono
  Mono: Capture [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 23
  Front Left: Capture 23 [100%] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 23 [100%] [on]

Sebastian: i set the applet on "Speaker" (not PCM) and it works fine so i suppose we should use this

Well, ALSA (linux-source-2.6.19/alsa-driver) is partly to blame due to the mixer controls' enumeration, but that's not a problem easily resolved without touching -all- drivers.

Guillaume and Nicolas, please attach your respective ``lspci -nv && cat /proc/asound/card0/codec*''.

(As an aside, pulseaudio should alleviate this somewhat, hopefully...)

'cat /proc/asound/card0/codec*' gives me

cat: /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0: est un répertoire

So I did this instead:

'cat /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/*'