2010/6/14 Colin Guthrie <gmane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 'Twas brillig, and Raymond Yau at 14/06/10 01:25 did gyre and gimble: > > if your sound card have ac97 codec ., you can use audacity to record the > > output from hw:0,0 and you will see clipping occur when you set "PCM" > volume > > above 0dB > > So the standard response is "don't do that then" :) > > That's why the base volume is shown to the user via GUIs so that they > can gauge the best point on the slider to use. Currently there is no > indication with alsa sliders at which point the 0dB "sweet spot" lies. > > IMO this is a good improvement for usability. > > Col > > This is bug in pulseaudio in dB calculation because it shift the ALSA 's dB value to PA 's own dB value I guess none of PA developers has AC97 sound card _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
