2010/8/27 David Henningsson <david.henningsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > So I've discovered that my sound card has a "PCM Playback Volume" > control, but changing that control does not alter the volume. This is > not only confusing but also a problem for PulseAudio. (PA merges this > control into it's overall volume, and so when the user moves PA's volume > control, in some ranges nothing happens.) > The "PCM Playback Volume" is a hardware volume control for those AC97 codec ( the name is "Wave" in Windows ) The "PCM Playback Volume" is most likely softvol on HDA Intel since it is defined in HDA-Intel.conf AFAIK, aplay has an option to disable softvol by using SND_PCM_NO_SOFTVOL --disable-softvol disable software volume control (softvol) _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel