I am running PulseAudio on my laptop (Asus P50IJ) that has an Intel HDA card (chipset VIA VT1708S, Linux 3.0.0, Debian wheezy). The card basically has four mixer elements: 1. "Master Front", which controls the master volume 2. "Headphone", which does not seem to be doing anything 3. "PCM" -- obvious 4. "Front" -- similar to "Master Front", see below The right way to adjust the volume (in alsamixer) is: - When you want to use the built-in speakers, you need to adjust "Master Front" or "Front". PulseAudio adjusts "Front", which works. The only bad thing is that is ignores "Master Front" completely, so when it's at low volume by accident, you have to open alsamixer in order to fix the problem. - When you want to use headphones, the card is a bit strange: You need to *mute* "Front" to turn the built-in speaker off. But apart from that, both "Master Front" and "Front" still have the same effect as for the built-in speakers, so you must not turn the volume of "Front" down, even though it is muted. PulseAudio controls the "Headphones" element, though, which does nothing, and it sometimes un-mutes "Front", accidentally turning on the built-in speakers (which might be really unpleasant in some situations). Is there any canonical way out of this? Is it PulseAudio that I need to configure or is it the driver that needs fixing? Thanks S?ren
