'Twas brillig, and David Henningsson at 23/02/10 22:24 did gyre and gimble: >> Heya, >> >> just wanted to point everybody to this new "canned response" type note >> I just added to the wiki: >> >> http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/BadDecibel >> >> I wrote a little tool that can be used to track invalid dB data >> exposed by ALSA drivers. Incorrect dB data usually means that playing >> a stream in PA while another one is already playing might result in a >> volume change of the first one, that should not happen. >> >> As it appears a lot of USB hw has issues with the dB information. >> >> Anyway, I though you might find that page and the tool useful, >> especially if you maintain PA in other distributions and want to know >> what to do with bug reports about issues like the one I pointed out >> above. > > Did this tool go almost unnoticed, at least on this list? I guess most of us have been following the interesting and very long thread on this topic over at: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/70545 :) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]