Sound volumes giving you fits?

[Antonio M]

2009/9/8 Tomek Chrzczonowicz <chrzczonowicz at gmail.com>:
> 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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I was experiencing breakages in radio streams, after the suggested
mod, Rhythmbox has been playing radio stream for more than 3 hours.
may it connected to breakages ??? any comment????


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