On Sun, 01.11.09 18:35, Achim Frase (achim.frase at googlemail.com) wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have noticed that the new pulseaudio volume logic sets the volume of > my mixer elements in alsamixer to 100%. Please read this for an explanation: http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PulseAudioStoleMyVolumes > I always reduced the volume a little bit so that the audio isn't > distorted, but nowadays pulseaudio setzt the volume back to 100%. > > There are two possible solution to my mind. > > 1) Is there a way to tell PA that it should set the volume of my > channels [(PCM), Front, Surround, Center, LFE] to 94%? The wiki page linked above should explain why this is no desirable. > 2) I have noticed that PA only changes the volume of the Master mixer > element if I change the volume in gnome. Wouldn't it be better if PA > would change the volume of all 6 [Master, (PCM), Front, Surround, > Center, LFE] mixer elements, then my problem would also disappear. This is actually what happens. See the same text for an explanation how that works. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
