Volume from mediasource and system volume is lin

Is there anyway to unlink the volume from mediasource from the system volume? I like to listen to music in the background while working and I find this current setup unacceptable. Obviously I could simply switch to a different player, wmedia, win-amp or itunes (yuck) no doubt. But I would rather keep the EAX support that you get in mediasource. Any ideas / solutions? Many thanks for your time - TinkMessage Edited by TinkTank on 02-06-2006 :49 PM

You should have your iPod volume turned up 3/4 of the way with a FM transmitter. If it still isnt loud enough try transmitting over another station instead.
*DO NOT turn the iPod volume all the way up. Aside from it distorting the music, its bad for the iPod.*
And there is no way to avoid the hiss or background noise with a FM transmitter since you are basically broadcasting some thing overtop of something else.
One solution, that is if you are willing to spend the money, is to get a new deck in your car that has a pre-out for a male-to-male standard headphone jack cord to go from your iPod to the deck. This would allow you to play your music through your speakers without the background noise.

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"$RECYCLE.BIN" and "System Volume Information" on a hard drive connected to EA4500

Hello
I've bought WD Elements 3 TB USB 2.0 External HD WDBAAU0030HBK hard drive for my Linksys EA4500. The hard drive was NTFS formatted. After I plugged it in I see "$RECYCLE.BIN" and "System Volume Information" folders on it via my Windows Explorer. I know these folders to be Windows system folders, but my hard drive is now connected to router. So do I really need them, or can I safely remove them?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

The EA4500 does not have to anything with these folders popping-up since they appear on the computer by its design- system file and cannot be deleted permanently. I had read some notes on how to hide these files; you can try these if you want:
It works as a part of recycle bin in your desktop. To make this disappear, go to Tools > Folder Options > View and uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”. System Volume Information is where windows system restore files are located. If you do not want to use this folder then disable System Restore.
But just to be safe, leave it as is. This should not make any issues or problems in accessing the files from the HD using the computers connected to the EA4500.

HT204370 the volume is very low on downloaded movies from itunes, and my volume is turned up all the way, and my volume is fine all other times???

My volume is very low when I download a movie from itunes, and my sound is turn all the way up. The volume works fine on everything else. It's really hard to even watch the movie and enjoy it. Why is this happening?

Morning Al My issue has since been resolved after some advice from a friend. It was simple, push the optical cables in firmly until they click, however mine didnt click but there was definatley room for them to be pushed in further as if they are loose they "leak". in addition to this on the TV settings, make sure that the TV speakers are turned off

INVALID VOLUME FILE COUNT and INVALID VOLUME DIRECTORY COUNT

Every few days, something on my machine is causing an invalid volume file count and an invalid volume directory count. Error message will read something like:
Invalid volume file count
(it should be 520176 instead of 520178)
Invalid volume directory count
(it should be 152750 instead of 152748)
This causes the machine to lock up.
This is my SECOND machine (same set up on the previous machine) that is experiencing these issues. Once I run the disk utility off of the original OS disk everything is fine.

This is my SECOND machine (same set up on the previous machine) that is experiencing these issues. Once I run the disk utility off of the original OS disk everything is fine.
Invest in a couple things - backup drive, Disk Warrior, and SuperDuper
Install OS X to part of your external (small and just big enough for an emergency system and minimal programs).
Booting off DVD is fine, but no Finder and you are limited to the (older) version of Disk Utility on there (and it does get updated and changed).
Clone your system for boot backup, especially before updates and changes.
Disk Warrior recognizes and repairs more issues, some of which Apple First Aid doesn't even look for.
So even though it appears okay afterward...
Next would be to run Apple Hardware Test, and along with that check your RAM with MEMTEST (REMBER is handy and is just GUI wrapper to memtest program) or run Memtest yourself from the Terminal.

Alert volume not dictated by system volume

I have recently updated from a 2nd Gen iPod to a 4th Gen. On my old iPod, the volume dictated the volume of push alerts this seems to not be the case on the new one. The push alerts volume stays the same volume whether the system volume is all the way up or even muted. Why is this the case, and how can I fix this?

This is a problem that both I and a co-worker are experiencing AND we have already verified that the "Change with Buttons" is set to on, have rebooted phones, changed tones, ...etc.
But in my case my alerts from applications, mail, texts, ...etc. are much louder than the system wide volume set for the ring tone and in the case of my co-worker his alerts are much lower in volume than his ringtone.
I am wonder if this might be a small undocumented feature, sometimes known as a bug, might be tied into some other volume setting activity such as adjusting the phone volume during a call?

Updates and system volume

Hi. I've noticed that after applying the latest system updates (around 10.4.6) my iMac's volume is significantly lower (than what it was when originally purchased with 10.4). A friend of mine also noticed this (in an iMac G5 2.16 - iSight)
Also I've upgraded my Powermac G5 Dual 2.0ghz from 10.3 to 10.4 but in this case the sound coming out from the speaker is barely hearable at maximum when in 10.3 it was pretty loud.
The values are at top on any panel where are volume controls (midi, system...) reseting PRAM didn't work either.
Anyone has any idea?
Lowering the volume is some kind of apple's policy?
Thanks!
iMac G5 2.0 Ghz - 1.5GB Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi, David. Welcome to the Discussions.
1. Are you using:
- The Apple Pro keyboard that came with your "g5" (what model G5: iMac? Power Mac? - it helps if your profile has this detail) ?
- A third-party keyboard?
If using a third-party keyboard and you were required to install software for it, check the keyboard manufacturer's Web site for updated (Tiger-compatible) software for that keyboard.
2. Are you using a KVM Switchbox? See “Mac OS X: Some Key Commands May Not Work with KVM Switchbox.” If that's the case, contact the manufacturer of your KVM Switchbox.
3. With respect to the Volume keys not working, can you be more specific? Are you not getting audible feedback or visual feedback when you press the Volume keys?
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

Why is my ipod touch 4g volume stay low and the volume pop up wont go away

Ever since this morning my ipods volume goes to 0 and the pop up wont go away and my sleep button doesnt work because of the poppup any help? and i restored and didnt help

Try the following:
- A reset. Nothing is lost
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Restore from backup
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore to factory settings/new iPod.
If you still have the problem that indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order

What can I delete from Extensions and System folder?

I just installed System 10.4 bundled with Classic Mode on my eMac. There seemed to be a lot of things that got installed that I won't need, such as: printer drivers, iChat, Quicken and World Book Encyclopedia. What can I safely delete from the Extensions folder that will not affect the operating system, keeping in that want to run on programs in Classic Mode? Is there anything else I can delete along these lines that will free up hard drive space? Is there anything I can safely delete from the System Folder?
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A standard install loads you up with a pile of unneeded printer drivers, foreign fonts and foreign language support. Did you do the optional install that allows you to omit these space-eaters? If not, as this is a new install, you might consider reinstalling and exercising the optional or custom install options.
Back in the OS9 and earlier days when hard drives were tiny and RAM was expensive, it was a real help to rid one's self of the extra unused extensions. They had "open" and easily understood file names making it a no-brainer to drag those extensions to an "unused extension" folder outside the System folder.
Of all the eMacs made there were only two basic logic board architectures. The first would accommodate up to 1 GB RAM and the second could handle a total of 2GB RAM. Do "About this Mac" from your Apple menu and, in the resulting window, click the "More Info..." button to launch System Profiler.
In Profiler's first screen you can tell which architecture you have. The second line in OS 104 is "Machine Model" followed by a code:
code "PowerMac4,4" --the first architecture, with USB 1.1 and a max RAm of 1GB
code "PowerMac6,4 --that later and desirable USB 2.0 logic board that can do 2GB RAM.
If you have a 4,4 the RAM for that model is listed here:
http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Upgrades.cfm?sort=pop&model=146&type=Memory
"PC-133" RAM is preferred in 4,4 eMacs for best function.
The same vendor has RAM for the 6,4 here:
http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Upgrades.cfm?sort=pop&model=223&type=Memory
I've bought 90 percent of my RAM from this vendor for the last decade and can vouch for their product quality and customer service.
The point is that maxxing out your RAM is not expensive and saves you a lot of grief from deleting some file with a cryptic OSX name that the computer really needs.

Grants from SYS and SYSTEM user

Hi All,
Please help me to understand this problem.
I have some schema named maps_ref where I am creating a view.( table abc ,view abc01).
Here I have granted the create view,create any view privs to maps_ref by connecting SYS as SYSDBA.
It alllowed me to create the view.
Just as a try, I revoked the privs by connecting as SYSTEM and it revoked the privs granted by SYS as SYSDBA.
Later obviously I could not create the view.
Does it mean that grants given by SYS as SYSDBA can be taken back from SYSTEM though SYSDBA is more powerful then SYSTEM?
I am little bit confused how it worked? Please explain.
Rgds,
Aashish

Hi,
SYS isnt normal user and you are not able to connect without clause SYSDBA.
sqlplus sys@test
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Wed Apr 8 09:48:37 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Enter password:
ERROR:
ORA-28009: connection as SYS should be as SYSDBA or SYSOPER
Enter user-name:
sqlplus sys@test as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Wed Apr 8 09:48:55 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Enter password:
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL>
Regards,
Tom
http://oracledba.cz

Missing QT and ProRes from CC and CC2014 Since On Line Adobe Tech Support

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Here's what I posted to tech support: Here's my hyperlinking issue.
I have an InDesign document with 100+ hyperlinks. When a new hyperlink is created and the document exported to PDF, the new hyperli
nk repeats throughout the new PDF.
Each hyperlink is uniquely created and named.
This is how I create:
New Hyperlink Destination>
Type: URL
Name: Unique Name
URL: http//www.uniquename.com
Then I type and select the text that I want to hyperlink.
New Hyperlink>
Name>Unique Name
Type>URL
Name: select the corresponding hyperlink
click OK.
So, let's say I have 100 hyperlinks, and I need to add a new one, but the new one needs to go in the 51st spot. So, I complete all
the above steps. When I export from InDesign to Acrobat, the 51st link now repeats from 51 through 100.
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I've attached both the PDF and the ID file for your consideration.
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Has it ever worked? If so, what's changed? (provide comments in description field): No
Same results with different file?: No
Same results with different computer?: No
Recent System Hardware or Software change?: No

How can I backup data from a case-sensitive volume to a NON-case-sensitive volume?

The case-sensitive volume in this instance being a desktop-mounted disk image volume.
A tragi-comedy in too many acts and hours
Dramatis Personae:
Macintosh HD: 27" iMac 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (iMac10,1), 12 GB RAM, 1 TB SATA internal drive
TB1: 1 TB USB external drive
TB2: 2 TB USB to Serial-ATA bridge external drive
Terabyte: a .dmg disk image and resulting desktop volume of the same name (sorry, I don't know the technical term for a .dmg that's been opened, de-compressed and mounted -- evanescently -- on the desktop)
Drive Genius 3 v3.1 (3100.39.63)/64-bit
Apple Disk Utility Version 11.5.2 (298.4)
Sunday morning (05/08/11), disk utility Drive Genius 3's drive monitoring system, Drive Pulse, reported a single bad block on an external USB2.0 1TB drive, telling me all data would be lost and my head would explode if I didn't fix this immediately. So I figured I'd offload the roughly 300 GB of data from TB1 to TB2 (which was nearly empty), with the intention of reinitializing TB 1 to remap the bad block and then move all its data BACK from TB 2. When I opened TB1's window in the Finder and tried to do a straight "Select All" and drag all items from TB1 to TB2, I got this error message:
"The volume has the wrong case sensitivity for a backup."
The error message didn't tell me WHICH volume had "the wrong case sensitivity for a backup," and believe me, or believe me not, this was the first time I'd ever heard that there WAS such a thing as "case sensitivity" for a drive. I tried dragging and dropping some individual folders -- some of them quite large, in the 40GB range -- from TB1 to TB2 without any problem whatsoever, but the majority of the items were the usual few-hundred-MB stuff that seems to proliferate on drives like empty Dunkin' Donuts coffee cups on the floor of my car, and I didn't relish the idea of spending an afternoon dragging and dropping dribs and drabs of 300GB worth of stuff from one drive to another.
Being essentially a simple-minded soul, I had what I thought was the bright idea that I could get around the problem by making a .dmg disk image file of the whole drive, stashing it on TB2, repairing and re-initializing TB1, and then decompressing the disk image I'd made of TB1, and doing the "drag and drop" of all the files in resulting desktop volume to TB1. So I made the .dmg of TB1, called "Terabyte," stashed that .dmg on TB2 (no error messages this time), re-initialized and then rebooted the iMac from my original Snow Leopard 10.6.1 disks and used Disk Utility to erase and initialize TB1 -- making sure that it was NOT initialized as case-sensitive, and installed a minimal system on TB1 from the same boot. Then I updated that 10.6.1 system to 10.6.7 with System Update, and checked to see that Disk Utility reported all THREE drives -- internal, 1TB, and 2TB -- as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and no "case sensitive" BS. I also used Drive Genius 3's "information" function for more detailed info on all three drives. Except for the usual differing mount points, connection methods, and S.M.A.R.T. status (only the Macintosh HD internal, SATA 1TB drive supports S.M.A.R.T.), everything seemed to be oojah-***-spiff, all three drives showing the same Partition Map Types: GPT (GUID Partition Table.) Smooth sailing from here on out, I thought.
Bzzzzt! Wrong!
When I opened the Terabyte .dmg and its desktop volume mounted, I tried the old lazy man's "Select All" and drag all items from the desktop-mounted drive "Terabyte" to TB1, I got the error message:
"The volume has the wrong case sensitivity for a backup."
I then spent the next three hours on the phone with AppleCare (kids -- when you buy a Mac ANYTHING, cough up the money for AppleCare. Period.), finally reaching a very pleasant senior tech something-or-other in beautiful, rainy Portland, OR. Together we went through everything I had done, tried a few suggestions she offerred, and, at the end of three hours, BOTH of us were stumped. At least I didn't feel quite as abysmally stupid as I did at the beginning of the process, but that was all the joy I had gotten after two solid days of gnawing at this problem -- and I mean SOLID; I'm retired, and spend probably 12 hours a day, EVERY day, at the keyboard, working on various projects.
The AppleCare senior tech lady and I parted with mutual expressions of esteem, and I sat here, slowly grinding my teeth.
Then I tried something I don't know why I was so obtuse as to not have thought of before: I opened Apple's Disk Utility and checked the desktop-mounted volume Terabyte (Mount Point: /Volumes/Terabyte), the resulting volume from opening and uncompressing the .dmg "Terabyte".
Disk Utility reported: "Format : Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive)." Doh!
Obviously, TB1, the 1 TB USB external drive I'd actually bought as part of a bundle from MacMall when I bought my 27" iMac, and which I had initialized the first day I had the iMac up and running (late November 2009), had somehow gotten initialized as a Case-sensitive drive. How, I don't know, but I suspect the jerk behind the keyboard. Whatever the case, when I created the Terabyte disk image (the drive's original name: when I erased and re-initialized it -- see above -- I renamed it "1TB" for quick identification), the original drive's "Case-sensitive" format was encoded too. So when I tried to drag and drop EVERYTHING from the desktop-mounted volume "Terabyte" to the newly initialized and "blessed" (now THERE's a term from the past!), the system recognized it as an attempt as a total volume backup, and hit me with "The volume [the desktop-mounted volume "Terabyte" -- BB] has the wrong case sensitivity for a backup." And, of course, the reinitialized TB1 was now correctly formatted as NOT "case-sensitive."
Well, that solved the mystery (BTW, Disk Utility identified the unopened Terabyte.dmg as an "Apple UDIF read-only compressed {zlib}, which is why the .dmg file could be copied to ANY volume, case sensitive or not), but it didn't help me with my problem of having to manually move all that data from the desktop-mounted volume "Terabyte" to TB1. I tried to find a way to correct the problem at the .dmg AND opened-volume-from-.dmg level with every disk utility I had, to no avail.
Sorry for the long exposition, but others may trip over this "case-sensitive" rock in the road, and I wanted to make the case as clear as possible.
So my problem remains: other than coal shovel by coal shovel, is there any way to get all the data off this case-sensitive desktop-mounted volume "Terabyte" and onto TB1.
Not that I know whether it would made any difference or not, one of the things that got me into this situation was my inability to get "Time Machine" properly configured so it wasn't making new back-ups every (no lie) 15 minutes.
Philosophical bonus question: what's the need for this "case-sensitive," "NOT case-sensitive" option for disk initialization?
As always, thanks for any help.
Bart Brown

"Am I to understand that you have a case-sensitive volume with data that you want to copy to a case-insensitive volume? And the Finder won't let you do it? If that's what the problem is, the reason should be obvious: on the source volume, you may have two files in the same folder whose names differ only in case. When copying that folder to the target volume, it's not clear what the Finder should do."
Yes, I understand all that... NOW.
What I had (have) is a USB external 1TB drive (henceforth known as "Terabyte") that I bought with my 27" iMac. I formatted, and put a minimal (to make it bootable) system on Terabyte the same day back in late November 2009 that I set up my 27" iMac. Somehow -- I don't know how -- Terabyte got initialized as "case-sensitive." I didn't even know at the time that there WAS such a thing as "case-sensitive" or "NOT case-sensitive" format.
Sunday morning (05/08/11), Drive Pulse, a toolbar-resident utility (that's Part of Drive Genius 3) that monitors internal and external drives for physical, problems, volume consistency problems, and volume fragmentation, reported a single bad block on the volume Terabyte, advising me that it would be best if I re-formatted Terabyte ASAP. I thought I could open Terabyte in a Finder window, Select All, and drag everything on the drive to ANOTHER USB external drive of 2 TB capacity (henceforth known as TB2). When I tried to do that, I got an error message:
"The volume has the wrong case sensitivity for a backup."
First I'd heard of "case sensitivity" -- I'm not too bright, as you seem to have realized.
Oddly enough (to me), I could move huge chunks of data, including a folder of 40GB, from Terabyte to TB2 with no problem.
Then the scenario unfolded per my too-convoluted message: several hours of trying things on my own, including making a .dmg of Terabyte (henceforth to be known as Terabyte.dmg) -- which left me with the exact same problem as described in the previous 4 paragraphs; and my 3 hours on the phone with AppleCare, who at least explained this case-sensitive business, but, after some shot-in-the-dark brainstorming -- tough to do with only one brain, and THAT on the OTHER end of the line -- the very pleasant AppleCare rep and I ended up equally perplexed and clueless as to how to get around the fact that a .dmg of a case-sensitive volume, while not case-sensitive in its "image" form (Terabyte.dmg), and thus able be transferred to TB1 or TB2 with no problems whatsoever, when opened -- either by double-clicking or opening in Disk Utility -- produced a desktop-mounted volume (henceforth known as the volume "Terabyte," the original name of the case-sensitive volume from which TB1.dmg had been made) that had the same case-sensitivity as the original from which it was made.
In the meantime, having gotten the data I needed to save off the physical USB "case-sensitive" volume Terabyte in the form of Terabyte.dmg, I erased and re-initialized the physical USB "case-sensitive" volume Terabyte, getting rif of the case sensitivity, and renaming it TB1. But it all left me back at square one, EXCEPT I had saved my data from the original "Terabyte" drive, and reformatted that drive to a NON- case-sensitive data now named TB1. The confusion here stems from the fact that problem case-sensitive drive, from which I made Terabyte.dmg, was originally named "Terabyte". When I re-initialized it as a NON case-sensitive drive, I renamed it TB1. I'm sorry about the confusing nomenclature, which I've tried to improve upon from my original message -- usual text-communication problem: the writer knows what he has in mind, but the reader can only go by what's written.
So, anyway, I still have the same problem, the desktop-mounted volume "Terabyte" still cannot be transferred in one whole chunk to either my internal drive, TB1, TB2, as the Finder interprets it as a volume backup (which it is), and reads the desktop-mounted volume "Terabyte" as case-sensitive, as the original volume -- from which the disk image Terabyte.dmg was made -- had been at the time I made it.
"As long as that situation doesn't arise, you should be able to make the copy with a tool that's less fastidious than the Finder, such as cp or rsync."
I'm afraid I have no idea what "cp or rsync" are. I'd be happy to be educated. That's why I came here.
Bart Brown
Message was edited by: Bartbrn
Just trying to unmuddy the water a bit,,,

Running v10.4 (intel) on a UFS formatted system volume

Hello,
My (recently deceased) iBook ran Mac OS X v10.3, and I used to be able to install it onto a UFS formatted system volume. This was very useful to me in my work.
My new MacBook with v10.4 doesn't seem to allow this option during the install process. If I manually partition/erase the disk as UFS, the installer tells me it cannot continue until I've selected a target volume formatted with HFS+.
There doesn't seem to be anything about this sort of limitation on the Apple Knowledgebase - all documents referring to UFS that I've found seem to mention Mac OS X v10.4 in the context that it also supports running from a UFS system volume, just as in v10.3.
Am I missing something?
MacBook 13" 2.0GHz Duo (black) Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I've got one of these as my "travel" laptop (where the trip might be 2-3 months long): http://www.notebooks.com/2009/05/26/hp-mini-110-netbook-introduced/
I run CF8, CF9, Apache, SQL Server 2008, CF Builder and half a dozen Firefox windows on it simultaneously, and it runs fine.
It was quite sluggish with the default 1GB of RAM, but I upped it to 2GB and it's fine. It's not like lightning, but it's fine for working now.
I will also say that the display on it is too small for coding on for any length of time, but if one plugs ane external monitor in, it supports 1280x1024 OK, which is adequate to work on. Plus I have plugged in a keyboard and a mouse.
Adam

E71 system volume for applications

Is there a way to change the overall volume level of the loudspeaker when running applications? Every game I've tried I have to turn the sound off because the speaker seems obnoxiously loud. The volume buttons on the side don't seem to work except for a few apps like realplayer or when making a call.

I don't know if my phone is defective or if it is just something we all have to live with. Could anyone else check to see if they have the same problem and let me know?
Steps to replicate:
1) Menu->Installed Applications
2) Open the EA Sports Tiger Woods Golf game that comes with the phone
3) The black screen opens and says "All Sound". Click the Left select button underneath the word "ON"
4) Loud game music begins as the game opens. Try to lower the volume with the E71's built in down volume button on the side. On my phone this does not change the volume is this normal???
5) On game menu select options, note there are no options included in this game to change the volume level, so it has to be done somehow from the phones system volume but there doesn't seem to be a way to do this. Or is there?
I hope I am missing something really basic here. Its not just this game I have this problem with I have the same issue with every game I've tried. Is there no way to change the overall system volume on this phone?
Thanks.

Chromium takes over system volume control

Hi forum,
I'm using GNOME, ALSA (no PulseAudio or ESD), and Chromium on an i686 install. On my laptop (an Asus F3Jm), Master is a toggle control, and PCM is the slider that controls the system volume. The volume hotkeys on my laptop work correctly and control the PCM slider. However, when I open a Flash applet or an HTML5 video in Chromium, the PCM volume jumps to 100% and cannot be controlled by the hotkeys (not even muted); instead, the applet's volume control is the only way I have to control the volume. This is not an acceptable situation for me as some sites (for example Livestream) don't remember my volume setting and start off at 100% volume every time.
Well, sometimes. Once in a while it actually does work as expected (application volume controlled independent of system volume, and system volume can still be controlled via hotkeys), which is the part I find particularly confusing. I haven't figured out what the situations are where it does and doesn't take over the volume control.
(EDIT: It seems that it happens the first time, and only the first time, that I start Chromium after each system boot. So one "workaround" could be to never shut down or reboot...)
I don't believe the OSS emulation is being used, because I've unloaded and blacklisted the snd_*_oss modules and don't have alsa-oss installed. It's possible that Chromium is using the hw device instead of the default, but I don't know how to check for this or fix it. I don't have Firefox installed, but I suppose I could try it if someone thinks a comparison might be useful.
Package versions:
alsa-lib 1.0.22-1
chromium 4.0.249.78-3
flashplugin 10.0.42.34-1
<your requested package here>
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
Last edited by tarpman (2010-02-11 17:02:44)

ALSA doesn't support per application volume control, which would explain the behavior. That behavior, however, is still incorrect, as normally applications respect the volume level and don't overwrite it without user intervention.
A simple solution would be to switch to (at least for me) more advanced OSSv4 or use pulse audio (which I personally dislike).
You should file a bug report for chromium (or check whether you got some settings wrong).

I have horribly low volume from my audio instruments via MOTU 828

I am really frustrated. The MOTU 828 is a soundcard that has inputs for microphone ( I use 1/4" plug but also has XLR). Obvioiusly it accomodates other electrical instruments that I crank through an amp first (volume on 10) and connect via the amp's headset jack.
NO matter what I plug in the volume is horribly low in Garage band track. THe motu 828 has "input gain" for each input t and that is cranked to 10. Then in GB I have the "track mixer volume" cranked up (and the volume in "Track Info" is grayed out).
When I shout into the microphone Track equalizer barely moves and I can barely hear myself. Then I make a recording which is ever so slightly audible on playback but the "sound waves" don't even register in the region - it looks like a flatline.
One thing that is interesting is that when I connect my keyboard to the Motu 828 +via the headphone (audio) jack+ it works great and I can easily turn up the volume in the track "mixer" or on the keyboard and get it to equalize and peak in the red.
Why am I unable to record my microphone or my guitar amp (through the 1/4" headphone jack) at a decent level?

Mhurst08,
Are you talking about the Headset jack on your Amp or on the computer?
In my case: I use a XLR Male/Female Cable through my Audio Interface.
I go through (*Mic Instrument 1 Plug*) optional in my case... if i want to activate phantom on interface;
make sure *Input Volume* for that channel is up, along with *Inputs/Playback Mixer Knob* and Headphone volume, if using... not sure if your interface contains these volume knobs.
In term of GB in TRACK click New TRACK, then click *REAL INSTRUMENT* then CREATE.
In *GB Preferences* go to (Audio/Midi) in both *Audio Output* and *Audio Input* choose( The name of your interface if listed) in your case... Motu 828. if not, again in both try
Audio output(Built-in out) and Audio input(System Settings) which plays back through computer speakers... the first config., plays through interface.
Under Track Mixer you must click the circular dot button in front of the symbols: Mute, solo, lock,etc., buttons.
Go to (*Track Info Pane*) section and in *Input Source* choose( Mono 1) if you're also using your guitar at the same time you have to go back to *New Track* and take the same steps for Real instrum., and then choose Mono 2, and so on.
Last steps: Monitor can be *on or off* try both; underneath Monitor, is your *Recording Level* may sure it's turned up... not to high with Monitor ON... will get feedback.
You can also check the *Master Slider Volume* next to *LCD( measure, time counter, etc).* Oh, by the way your 1/4" cable should work.
See if this solve the mystery!
Message was edited by: musichead

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