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What does this fix?

Hello

I just installed FC2. A few times on a few machines.... I have came across a lot of issues. None that really will keep me from using it, but a few none the less. Fedora released an updated package (libgnome 2.6.0-3). I googled and googled some more, even went to gnome world and I cannot find what they fixed with this package or if it is just a planned release that never made it to official release. Anyways, I hope it fixes my volume control applet!

Thanks,

Well I wont pretend to know anything about your libgnome questio but what volume control applet and what drivers (OSS or ALSA) are you using?

Adz, if cuco76 is talking about what I think s/he's talking about, the volume control applet isn't exactly broken (it works properly); it's just that under GNOME 2.6 it becomes the "Super Doubled Mixer Control".

All mixer controls in are duplicated in the full mixer. It's really annoying. Also, muting any channel does not seem to hold state (and there is no save state in the GUI). Muting and the like must be done via alsamixer (but will not display in the GNOME applet).

This may not be what cuco76 is referring to, but the volume control applet under GNOME 2.6 is definitely "cracked" and has been for some time (I heard about this problem first on the GARNOME mailing list from someone running a 2.6 pre-release, and I'm running Gentoo and not FC2, so it's a GNOME issue rather than a distro issue).

I just upgraded GNOME myself, but haven't booted into it yet to check what, if anything, was fixed/improved.

And the changelog (found in /usr/doc/libgnome-2.6.1.1/NEWS.gz) didn't say anything specific:

Quote:

libgnome 2.6.1 "Triclops"
-------------------------

What's new since 2.6.0

* Bug fixes:
- Various fixes (Kjartan Maraas, Colin Walters)

* Translations:
- Added Punjabi translation (Amanpreet Singh Alam)
- Added Gujarati translation (Gujarati Team)
- Various updated translations (az, ar, be, ca, cs, cy, da, de,
en_CA, en_GB, el, es, et, eu, fi,
he, hr, id, it, ja, ko, lt, nn, nl,
no, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, sk, sr@ije,
sq, sr, sr@Latn, sv, ta, th, tr, uk,
zh_CN, wa)

So what the "various fixes" might be, we have yet to see (not to mention that Metacity has updated, as has the entire base, so if the volume control is fixed, it might be through other means than updating libgnome specifically). You'd probably have to read the archives of the GNOME developers mailing list (if there is such a thing) to get more specifics.

Hope this helps.

OK my thoughts were that this was the usual gripe about OSS mixers not controlling ALSA drivers properly. It seems that in either case (your description or mine) the solution is the same: use alsamixer if you use ALSA.

Thanks Both of you!

I am using Volume control 2.6 and I am using the ALSA drivers. I think I will just deal with this issus for a while as I am sure that a solution will arise.

Thanks,