Pulseaudio on Maverick 10.10

[Jonathan Thomas]

On Thursday 14 October 2010 10:20:16 am Daniel Chen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Jonathan Thomas <echidnaman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I cannot listen to things in private w/ headphones due to bug 591036[1]. It's just a dealbreaker, and without PA things work as they have before.
> 
> This is actually a bug in how the VIA codec handles controls.  ALSA
> natively doesn't expose that bug, because the codec never expects more
> than one playback enum to change in conjunction with its virtual front
> master.  (Of course you can reproduce the bug by using
> amixer/alsamixer to set the controls just as pulse does.)  We've been
> discussing this upstream; I suspect David H will have a solution
> soonish (long before I will due to other commitments).

That's good to hear. (Great, even) And while I appreciate that it is not a PA bug and that its removal is not a permanent solution, I just don't think my parents would appreciate my little sister being able to hear flame-engulfed headcrab zombies screaming in pain in the meanwhile. ;-)

(I must also note that I've not been very happy with the soundcard on Windows either. The volume has to be set pathetically low (4-7%) for it to not blow my eardrums out....)

> Best,
> -Dan
> 
> 

Jonathan T.