Sound volumes giving you fits?

[Tomek Chrzczonowicz]

Dnia 2009-09-08, wto o godzinie 02:29 -0500, Michael Cronenworth pisze:
> It might be that new "feature" implemented in F11 called "flat volumes." 
> In an attempt to copy Windows, for only God knows why, the PA folks made 
> your apps change the system volume.

Well, I think I will appreciate it...when it starts to work correctly :/

>  This, coupled with a bug in 
> gstreamer adjusting at logarithmic amounts instead of linear, it makes 
> volume management a pain. The fix?
> 

It gets even worse that that. ALSA also doesn't map to PulseAudio 1/1.
Now you have ALSA volume != PulseAudio volume !=Apps Volume. Kinda
defeats the whole purpose of flat volumes, if every slider uses a wildly
different scale. 

> /etc/pulse/daemon.conf

You don't have to edit system-wide config for that.
~user/.pulse/daemon.conf is enough.

> Uncomment "flat-volumes = yes" and change it to "no" and save. Log out, 
> wait 30 seconds for pulse to die (another great "feature") and log in.

Or you could just run "pulseaudio --kill" and "pulseaudio
--daemon" (both without root privilages) in terminal.

Thanks for sharing the tip. I just hope this stuff gets fixed soon.
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