Comment 28 for bug 411042

I just found this bug report and am "affected" as well. I actually used inears, when i psyched myself by an application turning master-volume up. I've read the first few posts of the conversation mentioned by Janne and it seems totally unintuitive to me. Is there a way to opt in favor of changing the behaviour in karmic.

Setting flat-volumes = no and restarting pulseaudio fixed it for me.