Hi the original problem was brought into focus by googletalkplugin auto adjusting the input levels with no way to stop it. however i have just found (googled) that way. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/chat/thread?tid=52a68f0e963deb52&hl=en To turn off the auto adjust: cd ~/.config/google-googletalkplugin # get to google chat's directory cp -p options options.bak # make a backup before changing stuff ! gedit options # edit the config file now change one of the lines so that it reads as follows: audio-flags=1 Now restart you machine and google chat will now longer auto-adjust!!! Remember to go to PulseAudio volume control just to make sure the left channel stays at 0 That hopefully is enough to keep the average user happy for now > To: pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > From: gmane at colin.guthr.ie > Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 12:45:20 +0100 > Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] protecting settings > > 'Twas brillig, and john owen-jones at 07/09/10 11:02 did gyre and gimble: > > you see the problem now ? > > Hi John, > > > Just in case you did not see the reply, I have answered your question > already in a different thread. I'm just taking action to prevent thread > divergence as this is technically a duplicate thread (I presume the > first message you sent was stuck on the mailing list moderation queue) > > Col > > -- > > Colin Guthrie > gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie > http://colin.guthr.ie/ > > Day Job: > Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] > Open Source: > Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] > PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] > Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20100909/ba30aee0/attachment.htm>