Soubd problems solved with ... kmix!

[Pariksheet Nanda]

>  Part of the problem I noticed with the Xfce mixer is the fact that the
>  number of audio channels isn't quite working properly (at least under
>  the various versions of Ubuntu I've used).
>
>  To solve this problem, I use the command alsa-mixer on the commandline
>  to change the number of audio channels back to 2, as it seems that the
>  audio software uses the line-in or microphone jack for the second pair
>  of channels...
>
>  Is this a bug and a bug report be opened?
>
>  Daryl.

Hi Daryl,

I'm inclined to say this is a bug, but the xfce-devs who may be
reading this mailing list can correct me on that ^_^

Doing an advanced search on xfce's bugzilla shift-highlighting all
entries for `Status' and with the `Summary' keyword as of
"xfce4-mixer" shows 24 bugs, none of which describe your situation.  I
would recommend you please file a bug about it.

I experienced that same problem as you on my nVidia MCP51 integrated
soundcard. In my case the audio channels *sometimes* get upset when I
adjusted the xfce4-mixer volume in my taskbar.  I didn't report it
because I could not consistently reproduce the problem.  The fix was,
as you figured out, changing the audio channels back to 2. ATM on my
distribution it's difficult for me to install the panel plugin to
confirm this behavior persists.

- Pariksheet