[arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

[Jan Steffens]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> If that is true it is completely wrong from the start. Because
> that setup can't be maintained when a second app starts playing
> which can happen at any time. Suppose that first (single) app has
> its volume set to some low value, and PA uses the soundcard PCM
> gain control to achieve that as you claim it does. Now suddenly
> there's a second app which wants a higher level. The only way to
> achieve that is to raise the hardware gain - you can't compensate
> for a low setting there by sending a louder signal, it would just
> clip. So PA now has to adjust the hardware gain and at the same
> time start scaling down the output from the first app.
> It's impossible to do that in any acceptable way.

Yet that's exactly what it does. And on my system (HDAudio) I have not
noticed any changes in the volume of the first stream, even as the
"Master" mixer control jumped levels.

Maybe ask the devs for details.