I talked to Alam Lenny on IRC about PulseAudio, and my initial problem with 0.9.15 is solved. By setting flat-volumes = no to daemon.conf, my volume doesn't get reset when a new stream is opened, nor does the volume change on app level in pavucontrol reset it.
The fix for this bug is to install PulseAudio 0.9.15, along with pavucontrol 0.9.8 and configure it for 5.1 output and stereo input.
I talked to Alam Lenny on IRC about PulseAudio, and my initial problem with 0.9.15 is solved. By setting flat-volumes = no to daemon.conf, my volume doesn't get reset when a new stream is opened, nor does the volume change on app level in pavucontrol reset it.
The fix for this bug is to install PulseAudio 0.9.15, along with pavucontrol 0.9.8 and configure it for 5.1 output and stereo input.