Subj : Re: PING Question
To   : Barry Martin
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Mon Jan 13 2020 03:23:16

-=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 07-Jan-2020 08:27 <=-

 BM>> One of the more main yes-or-no's would be
 BM>> the sound level (volume) control.  Don't really want another remote
 BM>> control, so control via the existing remote or a universal remote, and
 BM>> even while that is one unit prefer not to have to tap a selector
 BM>> switch (the TV - Cable Box - DVD - etc. one).  ...OTOH my consideration
 BM>> if for using a monitor and they don't generally come with remotes.
 BM>> ...May have just resolved that little problem!
 NB>> Sounds like still a lot of factors to sort through...  ;)
 BM> Yes.  Another project for later.  What's strange is one or two
 BM> computers around here I can control the sound level to the monitor/TV
 BM> with the keyboard, which would solve the problem.  Most I can't, so
 BM> that is the problem.
 NB> Sounds like software to me...  ;)
 BM> Probably, yes.  Maybe with a dash of hardware allowing the software to
 BM> change the volume: I have at least one Frontend where it looks like I
 BM> can vary the volume -- visual indicator for increase and decrease
 BM> appears -- but the output is constant.

Still sounds like software... or at the very least, incompatability with
the hardware... ;) 
 
 BM>> From the "Took a Quick Look Department" isn't the motherboard brand
 BM>> nor a configuration I did of the OS.
 NB>> AIS, I'd think it would be something in the program(s) you are using
 NB>> on the computers that do work that allow that sort of control as
 NB>> part of the program...
 BM> Overall the same: Ubuntu 18.04.3 with MythTV 30.  Both inquire with
 BM> the hardware to find out what it is and what needs to be installed.
 
Ok, then... some sort of issue with software somewhere... ;)
 
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