At Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:42:02 -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > 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. Use "3dB+" instead. It's case-sensitive. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
