Opened 2 years ago
Last modified 6 weeks ago
#18127 new bug
[desklink] Volume control does not work, only Media preferences does
Reported by: | waddlesplash | Owned by: | nobody |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
Component: | Applications/Command Line Tools | Version: | R1/beta4 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Blocked By: | Blocking: | #16550 | |
Platform: | All |
Description
As in title: the volume control in Desklink has strange behavior, moving the slider seems to adjust the volume slightly but only in a "binary" fashion (might even only adjust one channel?), it doesn't seem to be affected by moving it around. Further it has a strange appearance: the top is at 0 dB and there is no "red" area.
Meanwhile, the "Master output" control in Media preferences looks and behaves normally; it has a minimum of -60 dB and a maximum of 18 dB, and sliding it up and down behaves normally.
Change History (8)
comment:1 by , 2 years ago
Blocking: | 16550 added |
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comment:2 by , 2 years ago
Seems desklink is really only affecting the "Output" path of the "HD Audio" and not "Master output", and indeed it's only modifying the left channel, according to Media preferences. Very strange.
comment:3 by , 2 years ago
Cannot reproduce with hrev56578+46, 64bit. (That is on my long running Haiku nightly installation, which I moved to the r1beta4 repo)
The Media prefs' Deskbar replicant works and the one created with a "desklink --volume-control" does, too. It controls the both channels of the "Master output".
comment:4 by , 2 years ago
It is in fact related to #16550 !
Humdinger... do you have the same hardware? Haiku 32bit hrev.: 56434 on Intel Atom HD Audio I have this problem on 32bit only since 2 years now!
The Media prefs' Deskbar replicant works and the one created with a "desklink --volume-control" does, too. It controls the both channels of the "Master output"'.
Great to see it works for you!?
See #16550 for more details...
comment:5 by , 2 years ago
My hardware is reported as:
device Multimedia controller (Audio device) [4|3|0] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 8c20: 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller device Multimedia controller (Audio device) [4|3|0] vendor 8086: Intel Corporation device 0c0c: Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller
comment:6 by , 2 years ago
It controls the both channels of the "Master output".
I can confirm this behavior on my VMware install; there desklink's control behaves just as expected. So, this is confined to only some hardware.
If I recall correctly (don't have the machine booted at the moment), there are only one or two outputs listed under "HD Audio"'s Output tab, and I think desklink was controlling only the left channel of the "Headphones out" one (or something like that.)
comment:7 by , 2 years ago
OK, I think I found the problem: "Control physical output" is checked, and that seems to cause this behavior. Perhaps that option does not work correctly. Why does it exist at all, really?
comment:8 by , 6 weeks ago
"Control physical output"
"...Why does it exist at all, really?"
Well, in some cases at some audio hardware devices .. one of the output jack - presumably the right side if stereo was added in separate 2 jacks, I do not remember well - used to be reconfigurable to use it as an 'input' instead of output. It was not needed to be a stereo channel, but mono one.
It should be remained in audio config - a possibility to configure the phisycal - possibly jack - outputs. It was for mic's or phone line in. Nowadays these jacks are not in such 3-4 jacks (right (mono out), left (mono out), aux(sereo in)), but rather 2 ways only and both stereo (headphone, mic). I have such hardware mostly. More recent hardware has only one jack (headphone and mic together with a three-way jack) handling the stereo output for hedphone and mic input as well. So audio settings may vary on existing hardware.
For example I have built-in michrophones, possibly just piezo ones, but line in is empty in Haiku's Media/Audio settings ... Also I have input jack, I would expect it represents in the input settings. Do I need to have plugged in a mic/any stereo device to be appear in Audio settings as an input ?
Sounds like #16550 may be related.