google-talkplugin sets volume to max

akspecs · 2012-03-22 00:40:29

Hey there. I am having an issue with Google's Voice Plugin which I installed via the AUR 'google-talkplugin' PKGBUILD. My issue involves the plugin wanting the always set my volume to max settings when I receive a phone call or anything of similar sorts. Unfortunately I haven't found a viable work around. A good fellow called 'jeagross' suggested to me to edit a file ~/.config/googletalkplugin/options by changing a partilar field to 'audio-flags=1'. Originally this field was set to 3 in my case. I tried so, but with no luck. Every time I receive a call through Google Voice my speaks blow a full blast ring tone, and I manually have to set this volume down to a reasonable level.

A little background on my system. I'm running the 3.2.12-1-ck kernel on a Core2Duo Latitude D630. When running alsamixer, I can select a card called default which only has a 'master' mixer, and intel-hda which has a few more options. I stored some default reasonable values for alsa to handle through 'alsactl store' and I also have alsa as a daemon in my rc.conf.

if needed here is the output of "lsmod | grep '^snd' | column -t" :

snd_hda_codec_idt  49045  1
snd_hda_intel      20114  3
snd_hda_codec      76464  2   snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_idt
snd_pcm            60595  2   snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc     5837   2   snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep          4942   1   snd_hda_codec
snd_timer          15438  1   snd_pcm
snd                44501  12  snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_idt

Google points me to a few good suggestions, but I'm having trouble seeing a real solution that works for me. According to a few, the audio-flags=1 change to ~/.config/googletalkplugin/options helped them out.

Here's a page that I found through Google:
http://groups.google.com/a/googleproduc … BYPDFwYwoJ

Linux User 33 from the link seems to say something similar to editing that options setting mentioned earlier. I don't know what he means by simultaneous output, though.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin with the options file in place and I've also installed 'pavucontrol' so I can edit the volume of the google talk plugin 'application' individually, but with no luck. Each time it restarts the volume is maxed out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Last edited by akspecs (2012-03-22 04:40:31)

akspecs · 2012-04-01 02:42:19

Looks like there's someone else experiencing the same problem as I am. In the comments vassie also expresses concern over this problem.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40056

I don't believe that only a few experience this problem. It's not neccessarily a big deal if there's physical volume control on your device (e.g. headphones which are always set at 50% volume in spite of software being set at 100%). But I don't have such a device. I've recently noticed this on my desktop as well (which also runs arch linux and has the google talk plugin installed from the AUR.

Here is a log file is anyone can figure out what's going on :

[000:001] Browser XEmbed support present: 1
[000:001] Browser toolkit is Gtk2.
[000:001] Using Gtk2 toolkit
[000:004] Warning(clientchannel.cc:637): Unreadable or no port file.  Could not initiate GoogleTalkPlugin connection
[000:004] Warning(clientchannel.cc:451): Could not initiate GoogleTalkPlugin connection
[000:004] GoogleTalkPlugin not running. Starting new process...
[000:004] Warning(clientchannel.cc:607): Failed to get GoogleTalkPlugin path. Trying default.
[000:006] Started GoogleTalkPlugin, path=/opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
[000:006] Waiting for GoogleTalkPlugin to start...
[001:104] Attempting to connect to GoogleTalkPlugin...
[001:104] Warning(clientchannel.cc:637): Unreadable or no port file.  Could not initiate GoogleTalkPlugin connection
[001:104] Warning(clientchannel.cc:451): Could not initiate GoogleTalkPlugin connection
[001:104] Waiting for GoogleTalkPlugin to start...
[002:108] Attempting to connect to GoogleTalkPlugin...
[002:108] Read port file, port=41832
[002:109] Initiated connection to GoogleTalkPlugin
[002:209] Socket connection established
[002:209] ScheduleOnlineCheck: Online check in 5000ms
[002:310] Got cookie response, socket is authorized
[002:310] AUTHORIZED; socket handshake complete
[007:225] HandleOnlineCheck: Starting check
[007:225] HandleOnlineCheck: OK; current state: 3

I've also noticed a file called "/opt/google/talkplugin/cron/google-talkplugin" which contains the following line of many:

DEFAULTS_FILE="/etc/default/google-talkplugin"

This file doesn't exist on any Arch Linux install that I have, but judging from the rest of the file it appears to have a lot to do with apt-get and repo handling which is quite irrelevant for Arch (at least aptitude is...) but I couldn't quite be sure of myself.

Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Last edited by akspecs (2012-04-01 02:43:23)

alleyoopster · 2012-05-17 10:07:02

Vassie also posted a fix for this for which I am very grateful:

Found out how to fix the volume jump issue

Open /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and add the following

flat-volumes = no

Then restart pulseaudio

pulseaudio --kill
pulseaudio --start

Worked for me

Last edited by alleyoopster (2012-05-17 10:07:37)

akspecs · 2012-05-23 00:29:58

alleyoopster wrote:

Vassie also posted a fix for this for which I am very grateful:
Found out how to fix the volume jump issue
Open /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and add the following
flat-volumes = no
Then restart pulseaudio
pulseaudio --kill
pulseaudio --start
Worked for me

I'm glad this worked for you - for me it still causes the same issue.

Arch Linux

#1 2012-03-22 00:40:29

google-talkplugin sets volume to max

#2 2012-04-01 02:42:19

Re: google-talkplugin sets volume to max

#3 2012-05-17 10:07:02

Re: google-talkplugin sets volume to max

#4 2012-05-23 00:29:58

Re: google-talkplugin sets volume to max

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