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. -- Fedora 13 (www.pembo13.com)
