F11 loud sound (>100% volume) anyone?

[Ian Malone]

2009/11/19 hongwei hou <neilhhw at gmail.com>:

> 2009/11/19 Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com>
>>
>> Just wondering if anyone else has seen this as I'm curious why it's
>> happening. When I play sounds in F11 at the moment the master volume
>> control goes too loud (mouse-over on the volume control applet comes
>> out ~160%) and sound comes out incredibly loud and distorted. Changing
>> the volume through the applet resets it to below 100% and a normal
>> volume. This is particularly surprising  because normally that volume
>> control has no effect unless set to 0% in which case it mutes output,
>> instead I use the hardware/advanced volume control applet to adjust
>> PCM levels.
>>
>> This happens, for instance, when flash starts up in Firefox to play
>> youtube videos or BBC radio. I think it has also happened with
>> rhythmbox, but not at my machine at the moment so can double check
>> that. It sounds like F12 has improved some pulseaudio volume issues,
>> so maybe this will disappear when I try F12 later this week, but
>> curious whether anyone else has seen it.
>>

> yeah ,I have the same problem;
>

Having encountered what I believe to be a related (but more severe)
bug in F12 I've filed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540817
Though from what I've read so far it seems it will depend on your
hardware, so you may want to file a separate bug unless you're using
the same chipset.

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