The previous approach is non-intuitive for many people. Please google for flat volume and see how other operating systems approach the issue.
Also, you're incorrect that having overdriven audio is a PulseAudio problem. It's both a hardware bug (broken hardware!) and a linux bug (not exposing correct dB information!). It needs to be fixed everywhere, but hardware is much hardware to fix after-the-fact... -- Volume too loud https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410948 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
