Ubuntu
amarok package

KDE volume control not working with amarok

Bug #335480 reported by dnyaga
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amarok (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: amarok

Hi!

I am running Kubuntu 9.04 alpha (fully up to date as at now). Amarok 2.0.1 works mostly fine: my "priority gripe" right now: when I alter the volume via Kmix or the hardware volume control buttons on my laptop, the volume of music playing back in amarok does not change. This can get really embarassing when I boot the machine up in a "quiet" environment (I autostart amarok). It takes several seconds to fiddle with the mouse and silence it.

I will be happy to provide any further info that is needed.

Best Regards,
Daniel Nyaga

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Peter Antoniac (pan1nx) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu future releases better.

First, Is the volume setting working with other applications?

Second, it would be helpful to know if the special hardware keys are working at all? To confirm this, start a console (terminal) in a window and run xev. When pressing there the hardware keys, you should get something similar in the console:
KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4600001,
    root 0x89, subw 0x0, time 25046229, (739,-11), root:(744,525),
    state 0x0, keycode 123 (keysym 0x1008ff13, XF86AudioRaiseVolume), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Most notable, the XF86AudioRaise...

If you don't get that, the problem is somewhere else.

Please let us know...

Changed in amarok:
status: New → Incomplete
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Peter Antoniac (pan1nx) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in amarok:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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Nicholas Coltharp (coltharpnicholas) wrote :

I have this problem too. I'm running a Toshiba A135-S2386, and it's got a little "volume wheel" on the front. But that's not the only thing--changing the volume via the applet in the systray doesn't do anything either, so it runs completely independently of my system's volume.

Changed in amarok (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Confirmed
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Nicholas Coltharp (coltharpnicholas) wrote :

By the way, xev shows the event as "XF86AudioRaiseVolume."

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Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote :

Is this still an issue with 11.04? Because I believe we fixed this (given that the key codes are correctly recognized).

Changed in amarok (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for amarok (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in amarok (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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