Hi, The document at http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PulseAudioStoleMyVolumes didn?t really answer my question, so here we go. I?m using PA on a Dell Latitude D430 laptop that has an Intel HDA sound card [0] with a ?headphone? jack. When actually plugging in headphones in that jack, the volume is too loud, and pavucontrol doesn?t allow me to make it softer: if the master or per-application volume slider is moved below a certain threshold (around 20), it becomes completely silent. The only way I?ve found to work around it is via alsamixer, which does allow me to choose a volume between mute and the minimum I can reach with PA. What am I missing here? Thanks, Ludo?. [0] FWIW, here?s the beginning of the output of ?dbverify?: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Opening plughw:Intel for PCM. Plug PCM: Linear Integer <-> Linear Float conversion PCM (S32_LE) Its setup is: stream : PLAYBACK access : RW_INTERLEAVED format : FLOAT_LE subformat : STD channels : 1 rate : 44100 exact rate : 44100 (44100/1) msbits : 32 buffer_size : 8192 period_size : 256 period_time : 5804 tstamp_mode : NONE period_step : 1 avail_min : 256 period_event : 0 start_threshold : 1 stop_threshold : 8192 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size : 0 boundary : 4611686018427387904 Slave: Route conversion PCM (sformat=S32_LE) Transformation table: 0 <- 0 1 <- 0 Its setup is: stream : PLAYBACK access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED format : S32_LE subformat : STD channels : 1 rate : 44100 exact rate : 44100 (44100/1) msbits : 32 buffer_size : 8192 period_size : 256 period_time : 5804 tstamp_mode : NONE period_step : 1 avail_min : 256 period_event : 0 start_threshold : 1 stop_threshold : 8192 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size : 0 boundary : 4611686018427387904 Slave: Hardware PCM card 1 'HDA Intel' device 0 subdevice 0 Its setup is: stream : PLAYBACK access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED format : S32_LE subformat : STD channels : 2 rate : 44100 exact rate : 44100 (44100/1) msbits : 32 buffer_size : 8192 period_size : 256 period_time : 5804 tstamp_mode : NONE period_step : 1 avail_min : 256 period_event : 0 start_threshold : 1 stop_threshold : 8192 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size : 0 boundary : 4611686018427387904 appl_ptr : 0 hw_ptr : 0 Opening hw:Intel for control. Using element 'Master'. Element volume range is 0..31 (-46.50..0.00 dB). Testing volume steps 30 vs. 31. Testing dB steps -1.50 vs. 0.00. Attenuation factor is 0.8414 (-1.50 dB). Playing 1s of audio at amplitude 0.7500, mixer set to 30 (-1.50 dB). Mixer set, sleeping 0.5s Sleeping 0.5s... Playing 1s of audio at amplitude 0.6310, mixer set to 31 (0.00 dB). Mixer set, sleeping 0.5s Sleeping 0.5s... Looping. Press C-c to quit. Playing 1s of audio at amplitude 0.7500, mixer set to 30 (-1.50 dB). Mixer set, sleeping 0.5s Sleeping 0.5s... Playing 1s of audio at amplitude 0.6310, mixer set to 31 (0.00 dB). Mixer set, sleeping 0.5s Sleeping 0.5s... --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
