Comment 5 for bug 58790

note: I un-installed kmilo, which meant the media volume up/down/mute keys no longer work by default to adjust volume. this allowed me to program the media vol up/down/ mute keys to control kmix via the kmix global shortcuts settings (which produced the desired results - i.e., media volume keys control the correct channel on the correct sound card). so the problem lies with kmilo, which sets up the default behavior for many media keys (not just on laptops, but on desktop keyboards like my logitech di novo keyboard). kmilo doesn't seem to care what card or channel you have selected as the master channel in kmix - it just goes ahead and adjusts the master channel of the first sound card when you press the volume up/ down/ mute button. to get around this, you have to uninstall kmilo, which is unsatisfactory.