Note that this was an upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic, so perhaps the default in a fresh Karmic installation has this volume setting unmuted and set to high.
Also note that after setting this in alsamixer, the global volume controls do work to after general output volume, but there no way of directly altering this specific front output volume. -- 'Sound Preferences' in Karmic gives no option to adjust Front Headphones volume https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464544 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