On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 22:25 +0200, Andreas Thienemann wrote:
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> We want to control the 'outermost' volume slider. Because that's the
> one that most likely controls the actual analog amplifier if there is
> any. Controlling 'PCM' is kind of pointless on most modern cards since
> it is implemented digitally.
Surely a nice thing in theory.
But in reality, it's not always that clear.
I recently had a dual boot system with rawhide and windows.
Windows sound was fine, right volume et all. Volume knob at the speakers
was at 50% and the software mixer at 75%.
Now booting to Linux, sound is barely audible. Turning up the volume to
100% in the mixer and turning the speakers to full was barely enough to
understand the music.
Using an alsa mixer to turn up the PCM volume to 100% somewhat fixed that.
But turning to an alsamixer to work around a problem with the current
pamixer can't be a long term solution.
What is the long term way? And no, I don't care for F11. Releases are
overrated anyway.
The long term way is that your situation is a bug, probably a bug in
ALSA, and should be reported as such.
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