On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Martin (KDE) wrote:
Most likely this is a pulseAudio thing. I f you want to reset the
volume
slider, start pavucontrol and set the volume to a value you want.
pulseAudio has the big advantage of setting volume for every program by
its own.
It looks like my problem was indeed a pulseAudio feature. In pavucontrol
I found a slider for "System Sounds" that was set to 90%. (I have no idea
of how it got set that way to begin with; I don't recall ever changing
volumes in pavucontrol.) Increasing it to 100% eliminated the master
volume level changes. Problem solved!
Thanks,
Dave
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Dave Ulrick
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