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%. > 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 You are right! My PCM has positive gain! Anything over 50% in PCM channel shows positive gain. Master channel: 0-100% eaquals -64.50dB to 0dB gain PCM channel: 0-100% eaquals -30dB to +34.50dB gain When I lower PCM gain to 47% that eaquals 0dB gain. Now I can have pulseaudio per application streams go to 100% without distortion! Thank you, thank you, than you!!! 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
