On 23/01/14 18:39, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > 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 [...] >>> [...] >>> 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]. [...] It doesn't help. I'm not sure what's going on here. I get conflicting control names when using amixer to show them. "amixer -c0" shows the following: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=TxauYevj There is no "Master Front" anywhere to be seen.