http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=922401 --- Comment #2 from Christian Bachmaier <chris@infosun.fim.uni-passau.de> ---
That thread is 2 years old and actually about the VolumeOverdrive feature, i.e. that PulseAudio/pavucontrol allow to crank up the volume to 153%, but this is shown by KMix as 100%. So PA's 100% volume would be shown as 66% by KMix.
You are right. Playing a system sounds raises up the master volume slider and the system sound slider to 66% each, regardless of their prior setting.
Yes. But openSUSE has a patch for this since 13.1.
Then the patch did and does not work. As far I can see, there are others (Forum-Thread) for which the patch did not help.
Are you really using the package kdebase4-runtime from the distribution?
Definitively, I am on the distribution version. However, I upgraded my system from 12.3 (probably without patch) to 13.1 and then to 13.2 and did no clean install inbetween. Could there be some cadaver files or settings left over?
Any workaround?
Yes, several: - turn off PulseAudio (YaST->Hardware->Sound->Other->PulseAudio Configuration) or uninstall it
Ok, seems to be rather hard.
- set "flat-volumes = no" in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, this will prevent any application from changing the overall volume
Then my music player cannot make it louder also. Or am I missing something?
- you could also set a lower volume in the notifications settings, but that is removed/disabled by openSUSE's patch, but have a look into ~/.kde4/share/config/knotifyrc and modify the "Volume=" setting to a lower value (I'm not sure whether this has any effect though)
Would be the best workaround (despite a patch) in my eyes, however, as you have suspected, it has no effect. Thanx, Chris -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.