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kalinatek

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From: Boston

Registered: 2007-01-07

Posts: 20

KMix: Pulseaudio mixer only present when sound playing

Hi guys,

Title says it all. I've searched this one extensively with no results. I've got kdebase-* and kmix 4.12.4-1; pulseaudio 5.0-1.

When sound is playing, I get the PulseAudio mixer present in KMix - it looks like

ALSA plug-in [plugin container]: ALSA Playback

which controls the same volume level as when I go into alsamixer in the terminal and control Master for PulseAudio. I have this set as my Master Channel for KMix so that when I use my volume control keys, it controls the sound normally and all is well.

However, when sound stops playing, the mixer disappears, so KMix picks a different master channel, such that when I do play sound again, my master channel is now bound to the HDMI output and, therefore, my volume control keys control the wrong level...

I've tried re-installing KMix and deleting the configuration files I could find like ~/.kde4/share/config/kmix{rc,ctrlrc} and ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmix/profiles, but with no luck. Any ideas?

Thanks