Dave Ulrick wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Martin (KDE) wrote: > >> 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. > > It looks like my problem was indeed a pulseAudio feature. In pavucontrol > I found a slider for "System Sounds" that was set to 90%. (I have no idea > of how it got set that way to begin with; I don't recall ever changing > volumes in pavucontrol.) Increasing it to 100% eliminated the master > volume level changes. Problem solved! > > Thanks, > Dave I found this confusing also. It wasn't clear to me what the interaction between pavucontrol and kmix would be. I noticed my system sounds had somehow gotten set low in pavucontrol, and turned them up. But, will this keep it permanently set that way, regardless of kmix?