Audio problems in KDE

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> When I try to play audio in Amarok, it says that it's falling back to
>> internal audio; I'm not sure if that's good or bad,
>
> This one is a Phonon bug. Rather harmless, but annoying. If this doesn't get
> fixed properly very soon, I'll commit some sort of workaround to silence the
> notifications. (In fact, I've been wanting to do that since before F13 got
> released, but got busy with other stuff.)
>
>> however changing the audio volume inside amarok changes the volume level
>> on my front channel on the sound card itself, I'd much prefer for it to
>> have it's independent volume control like I thought it used to have.
>
> This is PulseAudio's "flat volumes" "feature".
> It can be disabled by setting:
> flat-volumes = no
> in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf or ~/.pulse/daemon.conf .
>
>> Also, every time the machine starts up (which is often as I am still
>> reacquainting myself) The master volume level on the card is all the
>> way down giving me very low volume. I can't find out how to preserve
>> the master volume level
>
> This is probably the doing of that same PulseAudio "feature".
>
>> or even change it via KMix. I have to use alsamixer.
>
> See:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KDE_PulseAudio_Integration#Release_Notes
> for how to start KMix with the ALSA backend.
>
>        Kevin Kofler

I'm not sure how this thing is a feature, but thank you for telling me
how to disable it.


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