http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589523 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589523#c0 Summary: pulse audio should not merge pcm and main volume control by default Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Sound AssignedTo: tiwai@novell.com ReportedBy: kdemello@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.0) Gecko/20100115 SUSE/3.6.0-1.2 Firefox/3.6 By default pulse audio is configured to merge the pcm and main volume controls. This makes it impossible to control the volume level on a per application basis when the main volume control MUST remain at a certain set level (for example, as to prevent distortion or clipping in amplified speakers). When the controls are merged, increasing the volume of 1 quiet application using the sound preferences panel increases the output volume of all applications. Please default to volume = ignore in /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output.conf, or at least make is configurable such that patches to pulseaudio do not clobber this file if it has been corrected by the end user. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. fix /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output.conf, so that volume = ignore globally 2. update pulseaudio 3. changes made in step 1 have been clobbered by the update. Actual Results: Changes made to configure pulse audio so that per application volume control is actually possible are overwritten by the updated package. Expected Results: /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output.conf, and all files in that directory should be flagged as config files so they don't get overwritten by updates. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.