Comment 103 for bug 275998

Revision history for this message
Tim Black (tim-alwaysreformed) wrote :

Marcus wrote,

> IMHO that Lennart seems to acknowledge this problem in pulseaudio, but also says that this could be fixed by a modification in the alsa modules (by removing all hardware volume control in alsa so that pulseaudio would take over the channel and automatically expose software amplification by scaling)

It seems to me then that an appropriate way for Alsa to allow Ubuntu to continue migrating to Pulseaudio would be to add a checkbox to Alsa's settings which says "Allow Pulseaudio to manage all volume control," and make the effect of that checkbox be that it disables Alsa's hardware volume control code.