On Thu, 23.04.09 22:25, Andreas Thienemann (andreas@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: Heya, > 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. Firstly the alsa mixer init database should have set up your system correctly. The database is incomplete unfortunately since most people don't send in a patch for the db after they fixed those settings manually. After running alsamixer -c0 alsa will remember and hence they never get annoyed by that anymore so they don't remember to post this anymore. However my plans for F12 should hopefully help to make this issue go away: on many machines we have quite a few volume controls in series. e.g. on Thinkpads there is the hw volume that is controlled by those magic keys, and then there is master, and then there is PCM. My plan is to collapse them all into a single slider which is possible if we have dB information about the sliders. The resulting slider would be the multiplication of the seperate sliders. This would both increase the range and the granularity of the overall volume slider and also allows us to fix the mixer initialization issue a bit since we would control both PCM and Master. This should fix a lot of problems for a lot of people. However it will of course also annoy Mr. Lerwick. But I fear I have to live with that I guess. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
