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Hi, I recently installed PulseAudio to solve a problem with sound over HDMI and it served well for that purpose. I like PullseAudio and KDE works seamlessly with it. There is only one thing that bothers me: adjusting headphones volume. There's no such control in kmix, only volume for analog output and for HDMI. I was watching a movie with vlc (which supports PulseAudio, I think) and I was unable to hear anything on my headphones. I tried with every option in kmix and vlc, and in the end I had to fall back to the good old alsamixer to rise the headphones volume.
My question is: can PulseAudio manage the headphones volume? Is my problem due to PulseAudio or kmix or both? Thanks.
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You might try pavucontrol, but it also annoys me that pulseaudio abstracts the hardware layer so much. I open gnome-alsamixer when I need to modify the soundcard.
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Thanks Pajaro. So if I understand it is an issue with hardware abstraction done by PulseAudio. I tried pavucontrol but it does not offer anything more than kmix, at first sight.
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