On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 13:57 +0100, Bert Hekman wrote: > Between the Arctis 5 and 7, that seems to be the case. > > I do not hear much of a difference between the sound quality. However, it > seems that the "chat" output doesn't go as loud as the game output. I can > change the volume of the chat output using alsamixer, but I can't in the > Ubuntu (17.10) gnome settings applet. (But that is probably the one you > mean.) > > Here is the output of "amixer -c1": > > Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 55 Mono: > Front Left: Playback 33 [60%] [-17.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 33 > [60%] [-17.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Sidetone',0 Capabilities: > pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono > Limits: Playback 0 - 4096 Mono: Playback 94 [2%] [0.36dB] [on] Simple mixer > control 'Mic',0 Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined > Capture channels: Mono Limits: Capture 0 - 29 Mono: Capture 29 [100%] > [-1.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Com Speaker',0 Capabilities: pvolume > pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: > Playback 0 - 55 Mono: Front Left: Playback 40 [73%] [-10.00dB] [on] Front > Right: Playback 40 [73%] [-10.00dB] [on] (Plain text emails would be nice, less chance of formatting getting messed up.) If you change the volume with alsamixer, what volume do the PCM and Com Speaker elements control? The "chat" or the "game" device, or both? I guess PCM controls only the "game" device, since the gnome settings applet will only change the PCM element volume. -- Tanu https://liberapay.com/tanuk https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
