Bug 145329

Summary: First start resets Treble/Bass settings of the sound card
Product: [Unmaintained] arts Reporter: Olivier Vitrat <ovit.debian>
Component: generalAssignee: Stefan Westerfeld <stefan>
Status: CLOSED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian stable   
OS: Linux   
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Description Olivier Vitrat 2007-05-11 20:13:08 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Debian stable Packages

Reported in Debian BTS at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=414243

When I switch my machine on for the first time and login to KDE, as soon as arts starts it resets Treble and Bass settings to the default 50/50, no matter what I've set them to before. This only happens the first time arts is started on the machine for each reboot.

I've narrowed it down to arts because I can login to the console before logging into KDE and set the Bass setting. Then I examine the output of "while true; do amixer get Bass >> out; ps ax >> out; sleep 1; done". Conspicuously, arts starts the second before Bass goes from (eg) 40% to 50%.

What's weird is the fact that this only happens once each time the machine is started. If I set the Bass setting to something else, kill and restart artsd, it doesn't touch the setting. It's only when artsd is started for the first time that it resets the Bass and Treble.
Comment 1 Matt Rogers 2008-11-19 23:39:28 UTC 
Arts is no longer developed and has been unmaintained for quite some time - more than 2 years. With phonon as the replacement for arts in KDE4, we're closing out all the arts bugs in Bugzilla since there is no chance of them being fixed.

Thanks