[Bug: 21.4.19] XEmacs Sounds Modulate System Volume Under Alsa and FC4

Randy Yates yates at ieee.org
Tue Apr 11 03:17:01 EDT 2006


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Dear Bug Team!

Everytime XEmacs plays a sound, the Alsa mixer volume is increased
momentarily for the duration of the sound (e.g., drum, whip, etc.).
This causes the volume from other PCM music sources (e.g., the xmms
player) that may be active at the time to be modulated up and
down. The amount of the volume change is significant and is very
irritating. This behaviour also makes the sound XEmacs is playing very
loud, in addition to increasing the volume (momentarily) of the other
PCM sound sources.

Specifically, if you start the gnome-volume-control application to
monitor the mixer settings, you will find under the playback tab there
are two volume sliders: Master and PCM. When XEmacs emits a sound, you
can visually see the PCM volume being momentarily increased. (If the
sound is short, a change in the slider position may not happen every
time the sound is played - try it several times). 

If you could look into this and repair it, or give me suggestions
on how it can be avoided, I would be thankful.

--Randy Yates
  A long-time XEmacs user

PS: To all the XEmacs team: Thank you for a WONDERFUL editor!

--RY





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System Info to help track down your bug:
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uname -a: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 #1 Thu Jun 2 22:55:56 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

./configure 


XEmacs 21.4.19 "Constant Variable" configured for `i686-pc-linux'.


Compilation / Installation:
  Source code location:              /root/install/xemacs-21.4.19
  Installation prefix:               /usr/local
  Operating system description file: `s/linux.h'
  Machine description file:          `m/intel386.h'
  Compiler:                          gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -fno-strict-aliasing -Wshadow
  Compiler version:                  gcc (GCC) 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)
  Compiler specs file:               specs.
  Relocating allocator for buffers:  no
  GNU version of malloc:             yes
    - Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.
  libc:                              glibc-2.3.5-10

Window System:
  Compiling in support for the X window system:
    - X Windows headers location:                 /usr/X11R6/include
    - X Windows libraries location:               /usr/X11R6/lib
    - Handling WM_COMMAND properly.
  Compiling in support for the Athena widget set:
    - Athena headers location:                    X11/Xaw
    - Athena library to link:                     Xaw
  Using Lucid menubars.
  Using Lucid scrollbars.
  Using Athena dialog boxes.

TTY:
  Compiling in support for ncurses.
  Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse).

Images:
  Compiling in support for GIF  images (builtin).
  Compiling in support for XPM  images.
  Compiling in support for PNG  images.
  Compiling in support for JPEG images.
  Compiling in support for TIFF images.

Sound:
  Compiling in support for sound (native).

Databases:
  Compiling in support for Berkeley database.
  Compiling in support for LDAP.
  Compiling in support for PostgreSQL.
    - Using PostgreSQL header file:  libpq-fe.h
    - Using PostgreSQL V7 bindings.

Internationalization:

Mail:
  Compiling in support for "dot-locking" mail spool file locking method.

Other Features:
  Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup.
  Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules.
  Using the new portable dumper.



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