sound balance keeps going to left a little

[orijinal]

i don't know how this happens, because i never go into the preferences>sound pane, but i notice that from time to time my speakers are louder on the left side, and low and behold when i go into these sound preferences, the slider is over to the left a little bit.

is there a keyboard shortcut that toggles this? i don't know why it keeps doing this, and it's really annoying.

thanks

 

[paperinacup]

i don't know how this happens, because i never go into the preferences>sound pane, but i notice that from time to time my speakers are louder on the left side, and low and behold when i go into these sound preferences, the slider is over to the left a little bit.

is there a keyboard shortcut that toggles this? i don't know why it keeps doing this, and it's really annoying.

thanks

This seems to be a glitch. My iBook did it and my friends OB (used to be mine) does it. Are you using 10.4.2?

 

[PlaceofDis]

it does appear to be a bug in 10.4.2 lets hope there is a fix coming for it though.

 

[orijinal]

yes i am using 10.4.2

thanks for letting me know it's not just me.

 

[MoparShaha]

Yeah, this happens to my dad's rev. D 15" PB. When the balance is off, adjusting the volume via the keyboard keys takes forever. You press them, then 5 seconds later, the bezel pops up. As soon as I set the balance back to the middle, the response from the keys is instantaneous.

It's never happened to my 12" PB.

 

[paperinacup]

Yeah, this happens to my dad's rev. D 15" PB. When the balance is off, adjusting the volume via the keyboard keys takes forever. You press them, then 5 seconds later, the bezel pops up. As soon as I set the balance back to the middle, the response from the keys is instantaneous.

It's never happened to my 12" PB.

Is your PB 12" running Tiger?

 

[jsw]

FWIW, I had this problem (or a similar one - it acted the same way) on my 2002 17" iMac running, initially, Jaguar.

It's either an old unfixed problem, a re-emerged old problem, or a new problem that acts the same way.

Or it's a keyboard shortcut none of us know....

 

[tekmoe]

Yeah, this happens to my dad's rev. D 15" PB. When the balance is off, adjusting the volume via the keyboard keys takes forever. You press them, then 5 seconds later, the bezel pops up. As soon as I set the balance back to the middle, the response from the keys is instantaneous.

It's never happened to my 12" PB.

having this same exact problem with my 15" 1.5ghz. 10.4.2 also.

 

[yenko]

i don't know how this happens, because i never go into the preferences>sound pane, but i notice that from time to time my speakers are louder on the left side, and low and behold when i go into these sound preferences, the slider is over to the left a little bit.

is there a keyboard shortcut that toggles this? i don't know why it keeps doing this, and it's really annoying.

thanks

Gotta be a bug!!

4 machines running 10.4.2...all do that!

 

[CanadaRAM]

sound balance keeps going to left a little

It's that damned left-leaning media bias we've all been hearing about....

 

[ColoJohnBoy]

sound balance keeps going to left a little

It's that damned left-leaning media bias we've all been hearing about....

Those bastard are trying to corrupt our youth and warp their minds. This only proves the treacherous ends to which they'll go in order to gain power.

 

[carpe diem]

Same here with me,
Thanks for letting me know i am not going crazy.

 

[GreeneGirl7]

Funnily enough, mine had been going to the left but when I checked just now it had mysteriously slipped to the right a bit.

 

[tek]

Apple are really pissing me off with this. They have known about it for months.

It happens on some machines when you use the volume keys on a keyboard.

Here, someone wrote a workaround: http://www.whamb.com/balanced/ which has kept me sane for the last month.

 

[tekmoe]

Apple are really pissing me off with this. They have known about it for months.

It happens on some machines when you use the volume keys on a keyboard.

Here, someone wrote a workaround: http://www.whamb.com/balanced/ which has kept me sane for the last month.

good find!

 

[steelfist]

i would like to say. DAMN IT ME TOO! now that aside, thanks for the link. i have been sane since i used this program. how relieving.

 

[MacRy]

Chalk me up as another one experiencing this problem under 10.4.2 with a new 15" PowerBook. Thought I was going mad until you guys confirmed my sanity.

 

[yenko]

Apple are really pissing me off with this. They have known about it for months.

It happens on some machines when you use the volume keys on a keyboard.

Here, someone wrote a workaround: http://www.whamb.com/balanced/ which has kept me sane for the last month.

The next update will fix the problem but the "hack" will now cause kernal panicks!

 

[mklos]

I have this same problem with both Panther and Tiger when I plug my Harmon Kardon Sound Sticks in via USB. I does seem to be an unfixed bug with the sound system preference, but a minor bug at that.

 

[iEdd]

They want us to hear more singing and bass, than guitars and drums.. I'll show them, by swapping my speakers around
/Then realises I don't have this problem