Soubd problems solved with ... kmix!

[Daryl Van Humbeck]

Pariksheet Nanda wrote:
>>  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

Thanks for checking for me, bug report now posted:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4063

Daryl.