Package: gnome-control-center Version: 1:2.22.1-1 Severity: normal
I have a machine with two sound cards - the integrated one and an external studio-grade one. The gnome-sound-properties component of gnome-control-center allowed me to see the sound cards by a descriptive name, e.g "RME Hammerfall" rather than the ALSA hardware name (e.g. hw:0) and choose which one I wanted to use for which type of application which I did, choosing the studio card for the category "Music & Movies". Some time later I rebuilt the kernel and, after doing this, the wrong sound card was being used for playing music. When I opened gnome-sound-properties a second time to check what was going on each of the drop down lists for the various categories had the same descriptive names selected as when I has last closed it but in each case with '(not connected)' after the name. Clicking on each drop down list and re-chosing the sound card I want seemed to solve the problem and sound now plays on the correct card. My suspicion is that re-building the kernel changed the order in which the cards were found at boot time and therefore which card was hw:0 and which was hw:1, that gnome-sound-properties had saved the hw:0 style ALSA name with my preference and that the not connected message meant that ALSA no longer reported the same descriptive name against that hw:0 style name. Obviously it is the particular card I want to pick in the preferences and not an index into the list of sound cards found at boot. It would be better if the descriptive name offered in the drop down list was all that was saved as my preference and that some daemon queried the list of cards from ALSA when GNOME was stared and maybe also listened to hotplug events to establish the correspondance between descriptive names and hardware names. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.7-ecrins Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on: ii capplets-data 1:2.22.1-1 configuration applets for GNOME 2 ii desktop-file-util 0.15-1 Utilities for .desktop files ii gnome-desktop-dat 2.22.2-1 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a ii gnome-icon-theme 2.22.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii gnome-menus 2.22.2-1 an implementation of the freedeskt ii gnome-settings-da 2.22.2.1-1 GNOME settings daemon ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.22.0-1 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.6.4-1+b1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libebook1.2-9 2.22.1-1 Client library for evolution addre ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.3-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-desktop- 2.22.2-1 Utility library for loading .deskt ii libgnome-menu2 2.22.2-1 an implementation of the freedeskt ii libgnome-window-s 1:2.22.1-1 Utility library for getting window ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomekbd2 2.22.0-1 GNOME library to manage keyboard c ii libgnomekbdui2 2.22.0-1 User interface library for libgnom ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-3 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime ii libgstreamer-plug 0.10.19-2 GStreamer libraries from the "base ii libgstreamer0.10- 0.10.19-3 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.9-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhal1 0.5.11-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libmetacity0 1:2.22.0-1 library of lightweight GTK2 based ii libnautilus-exten 2.20.0-4 libraries for nautilus components ii liborbit2 1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpanel-applet2- 2.20.3-3 library for GNOME Panel applets ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.2-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpixman-1-0 0.10.0-2 pixel-manipulation library for X a ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-1 PNG library - runtime ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libslab0 0.9.8.svn.20070430-1.1 beautification app library file ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library ii libstartup-notifi 0.9-1 library for program launch feedbac ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxklavier12 3.5-1 X Keyboard Extension high-level AP ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-2 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxss1 1:1.1.3-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages gnome-control-center recommends: ii bzip2 1.0.5-0.1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii evolution-data-server 2.22.1-1 evolution database backend server ii gnome-session 2.22.2-1 The GNOME 2 Session Manager ii gnome-user-guide 2.22.1-1 GNOME user's guide -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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