FS#10380 - [gnome-applets] Gnome Volume Applet acts "twitchy"

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Zach (zachman123) - Friday, 09 May 2008, 22:41 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Sunday, 21 June 2009, 08:38 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 18
Private No

Details

gnome-applets-2.22.1-1
Volume Applet 2.22.1
Using GStreamer .10
Using CA0106 driver (may not be significant)


The volume slider acts "twitchy" when used. By this, I mean that it jumps around when attempting to smoothly slide it. It appears it only twitches downward (quieter).
Alsamixer and other mixers work fine.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Sunday, 21 June 2009, 08:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  seems to be fixed, reopen if not
Comment by Zach (zachman123) - Saturday, 10 May 2008, 00:08 GMT
Also: In Gnome Volume Control (2.22.0), left and right channel volume sliders refuse to remain linked, as left channel jumps to 0 when moved.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 11 May 2008, 23:17 GMT
Could you build gnome-applets from abs and remove 80_mixer_user_gstreamer_signals.patch from the build? I haven't seen problems with that one yet, but if removing this patch fixes the bug, I'll remove it from the next package version.
Comment by Zach (zachman123) - Sunday, 11 May 2008, 23:55 GMT
Nope, didn't fix it.
I found the message "default mixer.c:461:gst_mixer_volume_changed: This element has no bus, therefore no message sent!" from gnome-volume-control --gst-debug-level=2, however. Maybe that can help. That warning only comes up when trying to change the left channel (which gets stuck at 0).
Comment by Hussam Al-Tayeb (hussam) - Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 06:41 GMT
Same here. it started happening around the last alsa-utils update but I can't be sure.
Comment by Joël Schaerer (lardon) - Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 08:40 GMT
Same problem here. Quite annoying :-(
Comment by Andreas (andreasl) - Friday, 27 June 2008, 16:26 GMT
Same problem here.
Comment by Mika Hynnä (ighea) - Saturday, 28 June 2008, 18:16 GMT
Using OSS emulation instead of ALSA in Volume Control Preferences helps a little, but only if it's available.
Comment by Andreas (andreasl) - Saturday, 19 July 2008, 10:45 GMT
This is not working for me. Exactly tha same problem with OSS emulation.
Comment by Norbert Pil (nrpil) - Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 10:08 GMT
This is still an annoying problem. How can i help to fix it ?
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 11:33 GMT
Make a bug report or contribute to an already open one upstream
Comment by Matt Runion (mrunion) - Friday, 01 August 2008, 22:33 GMT
Me too.
Comment by Joël Schaerer (lardon) - Monday, 04 August 2008, 20:43 GMT
I recently discovered that I haden't the alsa service running. I decided to run it to get the automatic storage of volume settings on shutdown. Since then, the bug appears to be gone. Maybe that's the problem?
Comment by Andreas (andreasl) - Tuesday, 05 August 2008, 07:18 GMT
I have the alsa service running all the time. Is there anything else you did?
Comment by Joël Schaerer (lardon) - Tuesday, 05 August 2008, 07:24 GMT
Not that I know of, sorry.
Comment by Pierre-Adrien BUISSON (PierreAd) - Tuesday, 05 August 2008, 07:51 GMT
This bug also happens when changing the volume with keyboard shortcuts ! If you're problem only comes from the gnome-volume-applet, you can use volwheel instead of it. But it doesn't solve the problem :(
Comment by Chad Catlett (dwi) - Thursday, 07 August 2008, 03:26 GMT
I wonder if this could be related: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478485 or ubuntu commentary: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-applets/+bug/136837

I have the muting issue more than I do the twitchy behaviour, but I see both quite often.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 07 August 2008, 06:32 GMT
That should be the related upstream bug yes, but we've already applied that patch.
Comment by Rene Dohan (innusius) - Saturday, 23 August 2008, 12:29 GMT
here is pach for it http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478485 , if maintainer can update package it would be cool :) its allready in svn
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 23 August 2008, 12:58 GMT
A modified version of that patch is applied to our package, and as you have noticed, it doesn't fix it.
Comment by Rene Dohan (innusius) - Saturday, 23 August 2008, 13:04 GMT
ups.. I thought for few minutes that arch is no bleeding age distro , glad it is ..
Comment by Keerthi (keerthi) - Saturday, 23 August 2008, 15:08 GMT
No luck with kernel 2.6.26 :(
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 24 August 2008, 14:53 GMT
Still happens with gnome 2.23.90, so whatever they fixed in svn, it's still not fixed. Seems alsa is completely flaky here.
Comment by krims0n (krims0n) - Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 21:08 GMT
Been suffering from this as well ;)

I noticed this report which indicates it might be a bug in gstreamer (patch included as well). Not sure if this patch is already included in the current arch gst packages though, if it is, it obviously didn't fix the problem :) If not, I am willing to test it if you tell me how (I am new to Arch).

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518082
Comment by krims0n (krims0n) - Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 21:58 GMT
I found a more recent similar bugreport with a patch that looks promising: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-base0.10/+bug/252237

Also like to add that gnome-alsamixer does not show this weird behaviour, only the standard gnome mixer applet and volume control.
Comment by krims0n (krims0n) - Saturday, 30 August 2008, 10:33 GMT
I can confirm this patch: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-base0.10/+bug/252237 fixes the problem for me. I took the gst-plugins-base 0.10.20 sources from ABS, haxed the patch so it works with that version, built it and installed it.

No more jumpy volumes for me ! Volume keyboard shortcuts also work perfectly agan. Attaching the patch. I am new to arch so not sure if there is a better way to do this. Should I stick this into AUR or something ?
   11_fix-skippy-volume.patch (16.1 KiB)
Comment by Keerthi (keerthi) - Saturday, 30 August 2008, 16:35 GMT
Thanks krims0n for the patch. The problem disappeared.
Comment by Christoph Kindl (chris) - Sunday, 31 August 2008, 18:55 GMT
A big thanks to krims0n, patch works for me too.
Comment by Joël Schaerer (lardon) - Monday, 22 September 2008, 15:47 GMT
Any idea when this will be fixed in the normal arch distro?
Comment by Jordy van Wolferen (jordz) - Saturday, 04 October 2008, 10:02 GMT
Patch works fine on x86_64
Comment by Andreas Neiser (aneiser) - Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 09:40 GMT
And yes, after yesterday's update to gnome-2.24 the gstreamer0.10-base-plugins got updated too. The problem is still not fixed upstream, so I had build my own package (the patch did not apply that exact but it worked, it complained about some offsets in the patched file).
Here you can download the binary package: http://student.physik.uni-mainz.de/~aneiser/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins-0.10.21-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
Don't understand why this isn't fixed upstream although this working patch exists...
Comment by Rene Dohan (innusius) - Thursday, 23 October 2008, 21:40 GMT
thanx Andreas
Comment by Artiom Molchanov (artiom) - Tuesday, 02 December 2008, 09:41 GMT
When I use Gnome Volume Control by the distant X server (on my ubuntu) it works fine
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Friday, 19 June 2009, 16:26 GMT
what is the status of this issue at this moment (+6 months) with the latest related packages?
Comment by Joël Schaerer (lardon) - Friday, 19 June 2009, 16:31 GMT
I haven't has the issue since a while, but I don't know if it's because it's fixed or because I applied the patch a long time ago :)
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Sunday, 21 June 2009, 08:36 GMT
Hm, I cannot confirm the bug either, I guess it's fixed

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