[pulseaudio-discuss] Volume controller redirection

[Vasili Sviridov]

Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
>> 2) When I control the volume of the Xmod, the volume jumps up and down
>>    rather erratically, and loses synch between the right and left
>>    channel. But this happens when using ALSA directly, so it's not
>>    related to PA.
>>     
>
> If you control the volume with "alsamixer -c1" (I'm assuming
> the card has index 1, you can check that with "cat
> /proc/asound/cards"), and it doesn't work any better, then I
> think you can't do anything about this problem. If it does
> work better, then again you probably can do something, but I
> don't know what ;)
I've noticed that gnome's panel volume control attributes a lot of weird 
behavior to controlling the volume of USB devices, like lock-ups, out of 
sync levels, etc... After I removed it from the panel I was able to 
control the volume using the buttons on my usb headset again.

V.