Hi, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> writes: > 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? It all seems correct, i.e., the volume is the same for every pair of 1s sounds. Thanks, Ludo?.
