2009/8/9 James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton@xxxxxxxxx>: > 2009/8/9 Tony Vroon <tony@xxxxxxxx>: >> On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 11:28 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >>> pulse seems to do a very bizarre thing. The single master gain control >>> within pulse changes both the alsamixer PCM and Master controls. >> >> That behaviour is by design, and described as a feature here: >> http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/oh-nine-sixteen.html >> > > Maybe so, but how do I disable it? > I want pulseaudio doing software volume control, and not touching the > alsa hardware controls. > You might ask why I want it disabled, that is because it is a broken > method. One cannot have a the gain control on the input to a device > linked to the gain control on the output of a device. If one ever has > two different inputs, E.g. from the CD, it just messes things up. > With the current method, all I get is noise from the speakers. If I > kill pulseaudio, I get nice sound again. > I don't understand why pulseaudio cannot see how much of a broken idea > the current method is. > I found out how to disable it. I edited analog-output.conf.common and changed "merged" to "zero" for the PCM control. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
