Bug#674935: pulseaudio: Disable flat volumes

Gabriel Corona gabriel.corona at enst-bretagne.fr
Fri Mar 28 12:03:30 UTC 2014


I agree with this, flat-volumes = yes [0]
is *very* dangerous.

As reported in many oher places, it can cause
hearing damage [1,2,3] as there is no reliable
way to limit the master volume : any appliaction
might start and decide to use it's

With "flat-volume = yes", I need to set the sound
of each application to something like 15% in
order to have a reasonable volume. If any
application decides to set its volume to anything
higher than 30%, the volume is unbearable.

[0] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/oh-nine-fifteen.html
[1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718728#c14
[2] https://features.opensuse.org/310668
[3] 
http://blog.spitzenpfeil.org/wordpress/2010/10/04/pulseaudio-annoyance-headphones-killing-my-ears/

-- 
Gabriel



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