2009/8/9 Tony Vroon tony@linx.net:
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 11:28 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
pulse seems to do a very bizarre thing. The single master gain control within pulse changes both the alsamixer PCM and Master controls.
That behaviour is by design, and described as a feature here: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/oh-nine-sixteen.html
Maybe so, but how do I disable it? I want pulseaudio doing software volume control, and not touching the alsa hardware controls. You might ask why I want it disabled, that is because it is a broken method. One cannot have a the gain control on the input to a device linked to the gain control on the output of a device. If one ever has two different inputs, E.g. from the CD, it just messes things up. With the current method, all I get is noise from the speakers. If I kill pulseaudio, I get nice sound again. I don't understand why pulseaudio cannot see how much of a broken idea the current method is.
Kind Regards
James