I have one Debian system with 1.0.25 and a Ubuntu system with 1.0.27 showing the same regression. Using amixer -D hw:0 set Speaker [something] I used to be able to say 3db+ which would approximately do just that. As of recent updates the actual adjustment happening on 3db+ is kind of random, way too small, sometimes even negative. It also does not correspond in any way to amixer's own idea of what the absolute dbs are: % amixer -D hw:0 set Speaker 14 Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Playback 14 [45%] [-25.50dB] [on] % amixer -D hw:0 set Speaker 3db+ Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Playback 3 [10%] [-42.00dB] [on] I see that on 2 machines and on different kinda of soundcards. Things are so bad that "3db+" is actually lowering the volume now depending on where you start. The absolute value also works very badly now. Going with something like "3+" (as opposed to "3db+") gives very uneven adjustments, very noticeable in the lower values, not doing much in the upper values. It's also unintuitive that alsamixer displays things on a 0-100 scale whereas amixer uses hardware numbers. Both systems have... interesting /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf entries sourcing more... interesting stuff. Simply removing /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf breaks alsa entirely. Might be somewhere in there. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@xxxxxxxx> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
