[oi-dev] Mate is here (as well as new test ISOs)

Aurélien Larcher aurelien.larcher at gmail.com
Tue Aug 16 21:11:08 UTC 2016


On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Michael Kruger <makruger2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/16/16 03:50 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>>
>> Now checked on a real desktop (Asus P6T/X58/Core i7 980X/Quadro FX
>> 1800), and all is working correctly... no, wait, sound volume cannot
>> be changed after fiddling with the sound control settings, no
>> way to set volume with any controls anymore, no way to set volume
>> html5 youtube video, etc. Something is broken there.
>
>
> I am seeing this also....it occurs when playing either audio or video in
> firefox.
> In fact, Firefox does not even show up as an active application in the sound
> preferences applet (accessed by right clicking the system tray speaker
> icon).

Firefox does not use pulseaudio but OSS directly.

>
> Just as Udo described, the volume control in the system tray can be muted
> (or the slider moved up or down ) and has no effect on the sound level
> observed in firefox.
> The slider within a YouTube video also has no effect. It too can be
> manipulated or muted to no effect.
>
> With the system in this condition, the sound level is not adjustable.
> Trying different settings in gstreamer-properties doesn't have any effect on
> Firefox either.
>
>
> It does not look like this issue is related to the experimental disk, as I
> am not running it.
> Instead I added the mate packages to an already installed instance of
> Hipster running on a physical machine.
> However, I have been seeing this even before installing the mate packages.
>
> The sound preferences applet does properly control sound levels for other
> applications such as Rhythmbox.
>
> Michael
>
>
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