2014/1/23 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at gmail.com>: > It seems that PA refuses to use the maximum hardware volume of my sound card > (Asus Xonar D1). As a result, the audio is very silent. I have the volume > sliders in pavucontrol set to 100%, but PA only uses 40% (-20db) on the > hardware mixer. > > In order to get acceptable sound, I have to: > > pulseaudio -k > sudo alsamixer > [raise volume to 0db manually] Which control are you raising? Maybe it is not in the default mixer path known to pulseaudio? > Isn't PA supposed to use 0db on the hardware by itself? It is. Please try to fix it without sudo, as follows: alsamixer -c0 and of course without killing pulseaudio. This way, it will remember the volume change, as it came from user input. How do the sliders in pavucontrol move during that command? -- Alexander E. Patrakov
