> All, > > With the latest R14 builds, I am experiencing crazyness with the sound. > Critical stops/errors are very very loud, while normal sound events are > low. > Changing the volume with kmix has NO effect on the volume of the Control > Center > -> Sound -> Sound System -> Test Sound volume. Sound System uses ALSA. If > alsamixer is run from the cli, then volume can be controlled. However > using kmix > to adjust sound levels and switching back and forth between pulse/ICH6 on > the > mixer causes sound to be reset to high level for errors. > > The sound processes are: > > 18:48 supersff:~> ps ax | grep "pulse\|arts" > 3390 ? Sl 1:26 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start > 3400 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/pulse/gconf-helper > 14133 ? S 0:06 /opt/trinity/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -a alsa -d > -s 60 > -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f > > There is also a 1-2 second delay between the sound event being triggered > and > the sound actually happening. What could cause such symptoms? PulseAudio itself? ;-) In my experience PulseAudio only works correctly on a (random) handful of computers. Tim