What is the path or URL to that list? On sourceforge, I see alsa-announce, alsa-cvslog, and alsa-user, but no alsa-dev*. Thanks, Robert > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 22:48:50 -0800 > From: frederik@xxxxxxx > To: "Robert M. Riches Jr." <rm.riches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Reply-To: frederik@xxxxxxx > > You probably want to send this to the ALSA developer list, this one is > not very active. > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 09:05:59PM -0800, Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote: > >With a new OS installation on a pre-existing machine, some of the > >USB audio devices now have only 1.00 dB of playback volume > >adjustment, which of course is not enough to be terribly useful. > > > >The affected USB devices show up as "Audio Advantage MicroII" in the > >output of "aplay -L". From LSB, they show up as these: > > > >Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0d8c:0103 C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM102-A+/102S+ Audio Controller > >Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0d8c:0103 C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM102-A+/102S+ Audio Controller > > > >I just installed Devuan Ascii on the machine. It's running kernel > >4.9.0-8-amd64 and alsa-utils version 1.1.3-1. Doing "amixer -c 1 > >contents" or "amixer -c 2 contents" shows this for playback volume: > > > >numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Volume' > > ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=255,step=0 > > : values=0,0 > > | dBminmax-min=-1.00dB,max=0.00dB > > > >and > > > >numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Volume' > > ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=255,step=0 > > : values=77,77 > > | dBminmax-min=-1.00dB,max=0.00dB > > > >Using alsamixer to run the controls from end to end, I cannot > >perceive any difference in volume level. > > > >In contrast, the other device I use (either HDA Intel or HDA NVidia) > >has around a 60dB range according to amixer, and running the control > >in alsamixer from end to end has a huge range of gain. > > > >Previously, the exact same hardware was running Debian 7/Wheezy and > >then Slackware 14.2. With both those operating systems, the USB > >sound devices had a very adequate volume control range, certainly a > >whole lot more than 1dB. > > > >Being as the USB sound devices are the ones my wife uses, I'd be > >extremely grateful if somebody could point me a to way (if one > >exists) to a usefully greater range of volume control. Any > >suggestions? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Robert > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Alsa-user mailing list > >Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
