Re: Removing Pulseaudio with Gnome: volume control missing
On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 11:14 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 09:58:16, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Recently I installed Debian on a new computer, and I want to avoid using
> > Pulseaudio (it is problematic for me, and this is a long discussion on
> > this and another lists about that).
> >
> > I tried to uninstall it, and certainly, I have no problem: I have sound
> > but I don't have any volume control on my Gnome. I know that the Gnome
> > volume control relays on Pulseaudio, but is there any wait to get a
> > volume control for Alsa on the Gnome panel?
>
> A quick 'apt-cache search' shows at least two interesting candidates:
>
> gnome-alsamixer - ALSA sound mixer for GNOME
> alsamixergui - graphical soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard driver
Many people want at least a master volume for the panel. IIRC somebody
found a solution, it's somewhere in the Ubuntu Studio users or dev
archives. My recommendation is to keep a fixed master volume. Sane
volume control is done by the apps and by the external gear, e.g. an
amplifier. I suspect that laptops have knobs to adjust the volume too.
There's a sane operating range for the output level of an audio card.
It's not wise to misuse this level adjustment as volume control.
Regards,
Ralf
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