F9 & F10-Snap1 pulseaudio and underlying mixer channels

[Chuck Anderson]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 03:49:07AM +0530, Mani A wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Chuck Anderson  wrote:
> > I'm testing F10-Snap1, and I noticed that music was playing rather
> > softly, even though I had the application volume and the master
> > pulseaudio volume turned all the way up.  I ended up doing this:
> >
> > Is this just a bug, or a design problem with pulseaudio hiding
> > underlying mixer channels?  How would one expect to set the hardware
> > mixer channels when pulseaudio hides them from the user?
> >
> 
> Most probably you need to add more options in your ALSA config files.
> For example many cards that use the hda-intel module need them. See
> the alsa site for the relevant ones.
> 
> The rest of the questions are relevant anyway.

The problem seems to be that we have too many ways to control the 
volume--too many volume control applets--and the Pulseaudio Volume 
Control that was in the F10-Snap1 GNOME menu doesn't expose all the 
necessary sliders.

We need to settle on a single volume control applet that has all the 
required functionality.