[pulseaudio-discuss] Controlling pulseaudio volume with kmix

[Piero Filippin]

Hi,
first of all I want to thank everyone for their work on pulseaudio. I 
always thought Linux audio sucked, finally something which make sense 
(and works)!
I enabled the a52 in asound.conf, and finally I can enjoy surround sound!

However, I am having 2 issues. First of all, for some reasons I cannot 
understand, I cannot use the a52 output on pavucontrol, the sound is 
"choppy", this means something like 100ms of audio every second - but 
"simultaneous output on a52" works like a charm. Just a weirdness.

The only serious issue: I am not able to do is to change the volume with 
kde4 kmix (I was able to before enabling a52). I can change the volume 
on every single application (eg volume slider in amarok2 or mplayer) or 
using pavucontrol, but changing the volume in kmix has no effect (only 
the master mute works, and it was not working before).

Am I missing something obvious? Is this supposed to work? What I am 
really interested into is to change the "global" volume, kmix lets me 
use the mouse wheel on the tray icon and the volume keys on my 
multimedia keyboard.

Thank you for any help/suggestion.