On 23/01/14 18:25, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > 2014/1/23 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at gmail.com>: >> On 23/01/14 17:42, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: >>> >>> 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. [...] >>> >>> >>> Which control are you raising? Maybe it is not in the default mixer >>> path known to pulseaudio? >> >> >> The control is named "Master Front". > > Then it is indeed not in the default mixer path [...] > > In order to work around it, you can try editing > /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output.conf and other > conf files in that directory that are relevant to outputs. Find the > [Front] section in each file and duplicate it to say [Master Front] in > the header. Please report if this helps. I've now duplicated all occurrences of [Element Front] (grep -r "Front\]") with [Element Master Front]. I then did "pulseaudio -k" (I assume this reloads the paths). I verified that a new process was spawned (new PID of the pulseaudio daemon.) It doesn't help. The hardware mixer control is still not touched by PA.
