On 14 June 2010 09:33, Colin Guthrie <gmane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > '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. > What do you mean. If you use "alsamixer", dB values are shown so it is easy to find the 0dB "sweet spot". I think it is pulse audio that hides this information when it combines two alsa mixer controls into one pulseaudio control. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
