'Twas brillig, and Paul Menzel at 28/11/10 14:48 did gyre and gimble:
> Am Sonntag, den 28.11.2010, 17:12 +0800 schrieb James Harkins:
>> At Sat, 27 Nov 2010 06:02:51 -0500, Sean McNamara wrote:
>>> Why they are not independent: Good question ;-) The answer is that
>>> PA's flat-volumes feature is enabled by default.
>>
>> It gets a little more weird. Today, I tried to reproduce the behavior after 
>> opening rhythmbox. No problem -- the volume controls seemed to be 
>> independent.
>>
>> After a couple hours, and listening to some music, they are linked again.
>>
>> It seems like, if the master volume is at a high level, lowering the volume 
>> in rhythm box doesn't change the master volume. But, if the master is turned 
>> down, bringing up the rhythm box volume slider also increases the master.
>>
>> Changing the master (in either direction) also changes the rhythm box 
>> setting.
>>
>> I wonder... the problem started to reproduce after plugging in my iPod. I 
>> can't imagine why that would make a difference, but this whole thing is 
>> strange enough, anything is possible.
> 
> Could you please post more information.
> 
> 1. What version of PA do you run?
> 2. Did you try the latest release 0.9.22?
> 3. Does that happen with another media player, for example Banshee, too?
> 4. What version of Rhythmbox do you use?

Also, in almost all cases, attaching "pacmd list" output (as your
regular user) is almost always useful.

Col

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