On 1/13/08, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:17:39PM +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote: > > Hi, > > as I explained in my bug[1] I have problem with PA because of over > > amplification and I need to put every application stream on 50%. > > > > Is there some way to define that every new aplication stream has a > > default volume of 50% and not 100% when it starts because that would > > temporarely solve my problem. > > Yes there is, put "load-module module-match" in default.pa, > and create file ~/.pulse/match.table with one line: ".* > 32000". > > The ".*" part is a regular expression matching all streams, > and 32000 is the volume for matching streams (the value > range is 0-65535). > > Better solution would of course be solving the actual cause > for this problem. I'd guess the sound card does digital > amplification. alsamixer shows some amplification value for > the sliders, I don't know how reliable it is, though. But > anyway, run "alsamixer -c0" (replace 0 with something else > if the sound card doesn't have index 0) and if some slider > shows positive gain, lower it. The gain is shown in the > "Item:" line in upper left corner. > > -- > Tanu Kaskinen Thank you for your suggestions, I'll pass them along to fedora bugtracker also after I test them. My audio chip is Conexant CX20549 (Venice), have you had some specific issues with it? Cheers, Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic
