Dave Ulrick schrieb: > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dave Ulrick wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> The other night, a 'yum update' updated my FC11 system to KDE 4.3.5. >> I've noticed a rather annoying little change: while a KDE system >> notification is being played, the master volume is temporarily lowered. >> (If KMix is open I can see the Master Volume slider move down and back up >> as the sound plays.) This means that if I have the volume adjusted to a >> comfortable level for music listening that I can barely hear the sound >> that alerts me to new mail. >> >> Although I suppose some folks might like to have new mail alerts, etc., >> played a bit quieter while they're playing music, I'm of the opinion that >> I'd like alerts to be audible over the music so I can hear and act on the >> alert. Before the upgrade to 4.3.5 I used to be able to hear the >> notification sounds quite well. Is this a bug or feature? If the latter, >> is there any way for me to switch things back to the old behavior? >> > > Most likely this is a pulseAudio thing. I f you want to reset the volume slider, start pavucontrol and set the volume to a value you want. pulseAudio has the big advantage of setting volume for every program by its own. Martin > A few additional details: > > 1. The problem occurs when "Use the KDE Sound System" is selected in the > Player Settings tab under Notifications settings. (I have the volume > slider set to 100%.) > > 2. I can work around the problem by selecting an external player in that > tab. That way, notifications play with no master volume reduction. > > 3. My KDE release: > > $ rpm -q kdebase: > kdebase-4.3.5-3.fc11.i586 > > 4. My sound card is identified as a Ensoniq AudioPCI in KMix. PulseAudio > is installed and running. > > 5. From '# lspci -v': > > 02:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880B [AudioPCI] (rev 02) > Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI128 > Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19 > I/O ports at a400 [size=64] > Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 > Kernel driver in use: ENS1371 > Kernel modules: snd-ens1371 > > Dave >
