Gnome 3 sound. Blowing my ears off -.-

I just updated to banshee 2.2, which apparently changes the audio settings so that the slider bar for audio affects the entire system, and now I fear blowing my ears off. It only takes a few notches for the audio to feel like listening to an ipod at 100%.
I was wondering if I can change the setting in gnome 3, or whatever program I need to use, to make the slider bar less sensitive. I'd like to be able to have some more accuracy in the loudness of the audio.

Kaustic wrote:
Have you tried setting it in your xorg.conf "ServerLayout" section?
Option "BlankTime" "0"
Well, some systems [like mine] of some people [like me] don't have "xorg.conf cause don't need that file at all.
You should try another recipe:
From your terminal you can execute two simple commands:
xset s off # Disable X windows screen saver
xset -dpms # Disable display power management system
(From here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthrea … 528&page=2)
Really works. Just add this to your ~/.bash_profile.
Last edited by nobus (2011-08-26 19:32:42)

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