Oliver Gerlich wrote: > my onboard sound chip (CMedia 9739, on Epox 8RDA3+, with nforce2 > chipset) doesn't support volume changing in hardware (CMedia's cmaudio > driver for OSS does all the volume calculation in software). That means > that I'm unable to change the volume with alsamixer or similar programs. > > Now my question: is it possible to tell Alsa to change the volume in > software? Is there a plugin that does this? It would be possible to write such a plugin, but this hasn't been done. > I've already tried the "Route & Volume" plugin, but it doesn't do > anything. This plugin applies a static volume setting, you won't get a mixer control. Regards, Clemens