On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 22:25 +0200, Andreas Thienemann wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > We want to control the 'outermost' volume slider. Because that's the > > one that most likely controls the actual analog amplifier if there is > > any. Controlling 'PCM' is kind of pointless on most modern cards since > > it is implemented digitally. > > Surely a nice thing in theory. > > But in reality, it's not always that clear. > > I recently had a dual boot system with rawhide and windows. > > Windows sound was fine, right volume et all. Volume knob at the speakers > was at 50% and the software mixer at 75%. > > Now booting to Linux, sound is barely audible. Turning up the volume to > 100% in the mixer and turning the speakers to full was barely enough to > understand the music. > > Using an alsa mixer to turn up the PCM volume to 100% somewhat fixed that. > > But turning to an alsamixer to work around a problem with the current > pamixer can't be a long term solution. > > What is the long term way? And no, I don't care for F11. Releases are > overrated anyway. The long term way is that your situation is a bug, probably a bug in ALSA, and should be reported as such. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
