I just found this bug report and am "affected" as well. I actually used inears, when i psyched myself by an application turning master-volume up. I've read the first few posts of the conversation mentioned by Janne and it seems totally unintuitive to me. Is there a way to opt in favor of changing the behaviour in karmic.
Setting flat-volumes = no and restarting pulseaudio fixed it for me. -- application-specific volume control affects master volume https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411042 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs