[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#661207: Bug#661207: alsa-utils: Flash video sound no, longer controlled by PulseAudio after upgrade to alsa-utils 1.0.25-1

[Brandon Biegert]

Purging alsa-utils resulted in no sound at all.  Reinstalling restored 
the same wrong behavior.

I am using gnome 3, so the sound control icon controls the pulseaudio 
volume.  Adjusting this has no effect on flash video volume.  Opening 
alsamixer, however, does control the volume of flash video.  This, 
combined with the fact that neither flash nor mplayer show up in the 
"application" tab of the pulseaudio control center as programs playing 
audio seems to indicate that these programs are not being processed 
through pulseaudio at all.

I don't know enough about the current multi-layered sound stack to 
discuss this intelligently, so I will leave this to the experts.  If 
there is anything else I can do to help troubleshoot, I will be happy to 
do so.