On Thu, 17.09.15 20:59, Germano Massullo (germano.massullo@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Today I had a scary experience with the audio of my computer. > I was listening to music with Amarok, using my headphones... The KMix > volume level was ~ 35%. When I logged into a video conference > application, the volume suddenly reached the 100%. I was shocked, having > the maximum audio level shooted in your ears is a painful experience. > The conference application that triggered PulseAudio pushing volume to > maximum level probably should have never asked the system for a 100% > audio level, but on the other hand, PulseAudio should never allow an > application to make such sudden changes. > To avoid that, you have to set > flat-volumes = no > in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf This is a non-sensical request. If an app uses the mixer APIs to set the volume of something to very loud, that's what happens. Flat volumes have nothing to do with that. I mean, the app you are using shouldn't set the volume like this, and that's the key here. If you turn off flat volumes you win about nothing, you just work around this specific app. Soon the next app will come along and play the same game with the actual device volume, and you won *zero*. Don't mix flat volumes with misbheaving apps. Turning off flat volumes is a hack around the broken apps at best, and completely pointless.. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
