Comment # 2 on bug 922401 from Christian Bachmaier

> 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