On Mon, 14.04.08 19:22, Rene Herman (rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On 14-04-08 19:00, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > On Sat, 12.04.08 21:32, Rene Herman (rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > >> If we add in ISA cards, it's not a very generic assumption at least. For > >> example on my cs4236, "master" is -94,5 to +12 dB with 0dB at "87" in the > >> integer scale. > >> > >> It's a "Master Digital Gain" -- not sure what that "digital" implies as it > >> very much seems to be positioend in the post output mixer analog path... > > > > Maybe the driver should add an internal offset to the dB scale, to > > guarantee that 0dB is max, instead of just copying the hw specs? > > No, really quite definitely not. 0 dB means no attenuation of amplification. > How loud that actually ends up is very much dependent on what's _behind_ > your line-out. Yes, but what I am asking for is to define the dB values of the master control relative to the some ref level on this line-out. What happens after the line-out doesn't matter at all. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
