On Wed, 27.05.09 14:28, R?mi Cardona (remi at gentoo.org) wrote: > > Colin Guthrie a ?crit : >> Essentially, whenever possible pulse is off-loading the scaling to the >> h/w, meaning less work in software = less load, and better quality >> audio due to the use of the full range of the DAC. > > Slightly off-topic: is there a way to keep the flat-volume behavior but > with 100% software volume handling ? Nope. Not right now. Patches welcome ;-) > Rationale : my intel_hda makes awful crackling sounds with some volume > combinations (especially when PCM is at 0%). Sounds like a driver bug which should fixed at the driver level and not worked around in PA. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
