Ubuntu
pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #378325
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 378325

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote : Re: X login screen volume always set to max; crazy loud

PA is setting the volumes to max as documented at PulseAudioStoleMyVolumes. The correct way to work around this subjective symptom of "too loud" is either to configure module-alsa-sink to control only one mixer element (see the control parameter), or squash what's reported for 0 dB in the driver.