On Wed, 03.03.10 16:47, Ludovic Court?s (ludo at gnu.org) wrote: > 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. Sounds like a case of incorrect dB information. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/decibel-data.html http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/BadDecibel > [0] FWIW, here?s the beginning of the output of ?dbverify?: So, you did find our about dbverify. The printed output of it is quite irrelevant, what matters is what your listening tests with it reveal. And, what do they reveal? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
