Now this is a prime example of where bottom posting is a disaster. Pageing through reams of stuff to get to a 2 line answer. Anyway it sounds like either you have the wrong sound card selected (ie you have more than one and the pc speaker is one of them) or you have a slightly weird soundcard. I think that the labling of the various controls is up to the sound card manufacurer. Ie, this has nothing to do with alsq-- they just pass on to the users the functionality that the soundcard has. If the soundcard manufacturer decided that PCM meant Pretty Cool music and when you adjust the slider the card starts to play Bing Cosby songs, then that is what the PCM slider will do. On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:00:59 +1100 > Allan Klinbail <sonofzev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> To my knowledge the PCM slider or nvidia nforce chips controls the >> digital out volume (s/pdif,ac3).. >> >> cheers >> >> Allan >> >> >> On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 16:12 -0800, Ken Restivo wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> I have a PCM slider on my hda_intel care (Mac Mini) which does nothing useful. It appears to be only for decorative purposes. Sound volume is adjusted with the "Front", "Center", "Surround", "LFE", etc sliders, which all appear to work fine. >>> >>> On my machine, the "Center" slider appears to be connected to the internal PC speaker, and the "Front" slider to the stero analog line/HP output. >>> >>> - -ken >>> - -------------- >>> On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 01:12:32AM +0200, Sergei Steshenko wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> one of the sliders in alsamixer for Realtek ALC883/HDA NVidia is >>>> called PCM. >>>> >>>> In what cases should the slider affect output volume ? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Sergei. > > As I wrote somewhat earlier, in my case it controls volume of > terminal beep. > > Where can I read the definition of PCM volume control functionality ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
