At Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:30:29 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > On 9/12/07, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 September 2007 19:58:00 Jon Smirl wrote: > > > The ALSA changes in 2.6.23-rc6 for Intel HDA made me change my volume > > > from about 30% to 75% to get the same level of sound. Was this > > > intentional? > > > > > > My ALSA info is here. > > > http://pastebin.ca/692226 > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > First of all, what kernel do you compare to (which has louder sound) > > Then if you use headphones, maybe you plugged them in 'surround output' > > Like center/LFE/side/surround. > > Those outputs give much lower levers of sound. > > Only Front HP and Line-out have special amp for headphones. > > 2.6.23-rc5, I have stereo speakers plugged into the left/right output. > I never moved the speaker plug. The volume gets louder when I load the > new kernel. > > It looks like the name of the main PCM channel changed from 'pcm' to > 'PCM" too. I had to reset my levels in alsamixer. I have a STAC9227. The mixer element "pcm" in lower letters is very strange. If it's really so, it should have been a bug. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel