At Sat, 27 Nov 2010 06:02:51 -0500, Sean McNamara wrote: > Why they are not independent: Good question ;-) The answer is that > PA's flat-volumes feature is enabled by default. Don't like it? Join > the club! But the PA devs believe that overall, most users will > appreciate the flat volume experience more than without. And, they've > made many refinements over the years to try and fix it. Some users are > happy with flat-volumes, and others aren't. Rather than drag out the > "validity of flat-volumes" debate again, I say, just disable it if you > dislike it, and move on with life. Maybe one day flat-volumes will > improve to the point that it doesn't randomly blast your ears out, and > then we can all enable it again ;) Ah... a controversial option with no gui configuration. Nice. I'm quite happy to customize it for myself, no worries. > Where is the preference: In /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, the flat-volumes > flag is commented out and the default (if uncommented) is yes. > Uncomment and set it to no, and restart PA, and you'll be good to go. Uh-oh, that's not it -- it is already uncommented and 'no': dlm at dlm-laptop:~$ grep flat /etc/pulse/daemon.conf flat-volumes = no James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshark70 at dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks
