Comment 5 for bug 420578

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Mike Pontillo (mpontillo) wrote : Re: Karmic: PCM volume (as seen in alsamixer) "stuck" at 100% with pulseaudio enabled

Interesting. This caused a slight change in behavior.

Now when I turn "PCM" down in alsamixer, it goes down to 99, 98, or 97%. But then it "jumps" back to 100% and adjusts "Master" instead.

Should I have seen the "flat-volumes" directive in "pacmd" when I told it to dump the config? (I don't.) Maybe that's a separate bug. I wanted to verify that it had taken effect. (but I assume that it did take effect, since the behavior changed.)

>>> dump
### Configuration dump generated at Fri Aug 28 17:18:13 2009

load-module module-suspend-on-idle
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore
load-module module-augment-properties
load-module module-alsa-card device_id="0" name="pci-0000_00_1b.0" card_name="alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0" tsched=yes ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1"
load-module module-udev-detect
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
load-module module-native-protocol-unix
load-module module-gconf
load-module module-default-device-restore
load-module module-rescue-streams
load-module module-always-sink
load-module module-intended-roles
load-module module-console-kit
load-module module-position-event-sounds
load-module module-cork-music-on-phone
load-module module-cli-protocol-unix

set-sink-volume alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo 0x4c6d
set-sink-mute alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo no
suspend-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo yes
set-source-volume alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor 0x10000
set-source-mute alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor no
suspend-source alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor yes
set-source-volume alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo 0x725a
set-source-mute alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo yes
suspend-source alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo yes
set-card-profile alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0 output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo

set-default-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
set-default-source alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo

### EOF