'Twas brillig, and Nicolo' Chieffo at 02/04/10 21:25 did gyre and gimble: > I just had a discussion with pulseaudio developers in which they told > me that if the speakers don't emit any audio when the ALSA volume is > 0%, then the correct gain value should be -inf dB (a value lower than > -200 for pulseaudio means mute). Unfortunately my card has -48 dB. > > They also said that if with -47.25 dB (which is what I get with ALSA > volume set to 2%) I can hear audio even if it's very very low, at -48 > dB I should still be able to hear something (the scale is > logarithmic). > > Their request is to change to -200 the gain reported from my card > driver when the ALSA volume is set to 0%. > Thanks FWIW, I've got the same/similar h/w with a cutoff at 14% in PA as you have. I've been meaning to get this fixed for a while, but I'm incredibly lazy with certain things that don't bother me practically, so haven't followed it up yet. Thanks for getting the ball rolling :) If any specific debug is needed here, feel free to ask. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
