Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 27.03.08 13:41, Steve Greenland (steveg at moregruel.net) wrote: > >> Sound/music playing works fine, but volume control doesn't. What I >> figured out (by watching alsamixer) is that the PA volume control is >> manipulating the "PCM" mixer item, but the stereo analog line-out is >> controlled by the "Front" mixer item. Some searching led me to the >> assertion that PA tries for "Master" and then "PCM", but I couldn't find >> anything that let me change that search in PA. Hopefully, I just failed >> to find it? :-) > > No, this is not configurable. If the PCM slider does not work properly > on your sound card, then please report that to ALSA upstream. ALSA > (inofficially) gives the guarantee that "Master" always works for PCM > and "PCM" should be used as fallback. If this doesn't work on your > setup than this is a bug in ALSA. Had a similar problem with some embedded VIA h/w too. I've had a similar issue in the past myself with some embedded something or other. https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=39297 I now it is an alsa bug, but if it's common, perhaps a workaround could be added to pulse to allow a config option to override the default of Master then PCM? (e.g. switch the order) Col
