[SOLVED] Volumeicon, volti, .... Banshee: volume setting conflicts

matmutant · 2017-01-21 12:22:42

Hello, there's a while I didn't post in here, but I quite read a lot and learn with all of you.
Until recently I was using an ASUS 1011PX netbook as my main Bunsenlabs machine, but switched to an old (but mighty!) HP Elitebook 2540p.

I wanted to use Banshee as my music player as I was used to it (on my Mint Cinnamon 17.3 machine) but as soon as it was installed I experienced sound control issue:

Expected behavior:
- Master volume control would control the master volume, and the dedicated volume slider in banshee would control banshee's volume
- Or setting volume of Master would impact Banshee's volume in a linear matter.

Encountered behavior:
Setting volume down in Volti would set the master volume down would work OK until like 50% (which would decrease Banshee's volume without impacting Banshee's slider, which is intended); under 50% it cuts off banshee's sound (and sets Banshee's slider to mute)

What I tried: replacing Volti (using HoaS' tutorial : https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=2266)
This did not fix but reduced the volume cut off below 21% instead of 50.
(but now the sound- sound+ touch buttons are working)

NB: touching Banshee's slider after (setting from 0 to 1 or 2%) makes the master volume jump from below 20% (e.g. 8% if it was what you wanted to set) to 34%...
NB: in VLC, master volume impacts VLC's volume but in a full linear way

So I am looking for a way to either fix of workaround this
If you have any idea, please share !
Have a nice day!
m@

Last edited by matmutant (2017-01-21 17:49:48)

ohnonot · 2017-01-21 17:01:35

maybe it's a pulseaudio thing.
please open pulseaudio's gui mixer - that's usually pavucontrol, but BL might be using something else - and see if you can make sense of the settings (i remember something similar, and the trick was to set ALL sliders to just the right setting).

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-01-21 17:23:01

Try:

echo "flat-volumes = no" >> ~/.config/pulse

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments … seaudio_a/

matmutant · 2017-01-21 17:30:13

Thank you both for the help

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Try:
echo "flat-volumes = no" >> ~/.config/pulse
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments … seaudio_a/

I see what you are trying to obtain here, though .config/pulse is a folder, I don't think one could echo anything in there is there a config file I missed?

edit: man told me there can be a .config/pulse/daemon.conf

Last edited by matmutant (2017-01-21 17:33:03)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-01-21 17:41:37

matmutant wrote:

edit: man told me there can be a .config/pulse/daemon.conf

Yes, that's it, sorry, I'm not running PA on this system.

matmutant · 2017-01-21 17:49:29

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

matmutant wrote:
edit: man told me there can be a .config/pulse/daemon.conf
Yes, that's it, sorry, I'm not running PA on this system.

THAT was the right answer btw!
After a reboot the Master and Banshee are now independent, Banshee don't mess up with Master anymore
Master/Slave behavior is back as intended, I'll note that on my checklist for next install!

Thank you a lot

(gonna open another thread for a Blueman related issue now >_<)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-01-21 19:06:53

matmutant wrote:

After a reboot the Master and Banshee are now independent, Banshee don't mess up with Master anymore
Master/Slave behavior is back as intended

Thanks for the feedback

I think that it may be worth setting flat-volumes off as the standard in BunsenLabs, that is how Arch ships the PA package and I think it makes sense.

EDIT: continued in https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=3256

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2017-01-21 19:16:30)

#1 2017-01-21 12:22:42

[SOLVED] Volumeicon, volti, .... Banshee: volume setting conflicts

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