> 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