Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-media
I have a Dell Latitude D830 with a SigmaTel STAC9205 codec. One of the
quirks of this laptop is that the speakers are much quieter than the
headphones. Fortunately, there are three mixer controls: master,
speaker, and headphones. I usually have speaker set all the way up,
headphones set about 40% up, and use master to fine-tune the volume I
want. Unfortunately, the new Karmic version of gnome-media sets both
speaker and headphones to 100%, meaning that switching from speakers to
headphones by putting the headphones in the jack results in much, much
louder sound. The usable range of the volume control's slider range
becomes tiny, especially since the master slider has different strange
behavior in each release, but never is more than about 2/3rds of the
slider useful. It's really not possible with this laptop to not have a
separate volume control for headphones. While the ideal functionality
would be to keep master at 100% and have the speakers or headphones
mixer control be adjusted based on the jack state, I'd settle for the
pre-Karmic ability to control the headphones mixer control directly.
** Affects: gnome-media (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Headphone output ear-bleedingly loud on Karmic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/488513
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