[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#694685: xfce4-volumed: uses non-unique string names for card identification

[chrysn]

Package: xfce4-volumed
Version: 0.1.13-3
Severity: normal

on some systems (eg a lenovo thinkpad edge), more than one alsa device
with the same name show up. as devices are stored as names in
/xfce4-mixer/active-card, xfce4-volumed can not be configured to use any
of them but the third.

in this very setup, the sound devices and their controls look like this
in xfce4-mixer:

* HD-Audio Generic (Alsa mixer)
  * [] IEC958 [1]
* HD-Audio Generic (Alsa mixer)
  * Master [2]
  * Headphone
  * Speaker
  * ...
* ThinkPad Console Audio Control (Alsa mixer)
  * [] Console
* ATI R6cc HDMI (OSS Mixer)
  * [] Digital-1

the main volume that's supposed to be regulated by the hardware buttons
is the one marked with [2], but instead, the only thing that works with
hardware buttons is toggling [1] with the mute button.

/xfce4-mixer/active-card is configured to HDAudioGenericAlsamixer, which
fits both devices.


this, by the way, also affects /xfce4-mixer/sound-card and
/xfce4-mixer/sound-cards. those only constitute minor annoyances,
though.


in this case, a workaround could be found by installing
gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio, which names devices differently.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xfce4-volumed depends on: 
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa [gstreamer0.10-audiosink]         0.10.36-1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad [gstreamer0.10-audiosink]  0.10.23-7
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good [gstreamer0.10-audiosink  0.10.31-3+nmu1
ii  libc6                                                2.13-35
ii  libglib2.0-0                                         2.33.12+really2.32.4-3
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0                      0.10.36-1
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0                                   0.10.36-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0                                          2.24.10-2
ii  libkeybinder0                                        0.2.2-4
ii  libnotify4                                           0.7.5-1
ii  libxfconf-0-2                                        4.10.0-1

xfce4-volumed recommends no packages.

xfce4-volumed suggests no packages.

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