From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Raymond Yau Subject: Re: wrong decibel data? Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 09:46:14 +0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pw0-f51.google.com (mail-pw0-f51.google.com [209.85.160.51]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A56ED103843 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 03:46:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by pwj7 with SMTP id 7so3173811pwj.38 for ; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:46:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: ALSA Development Mailing List List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 2010/4/3 Nicolo' Chieffo > Hello, I have a laptop with an intel hda audio chipset (STAC92xx) > > My problem is that when I put pulseaudio volume to 14% (or less) I > can't hear any audio coming from speakers or headphones: in fact the > alsamixer volume is set to 0% > > I already filed a bug to pulseaudio [1] in which the developers say > that this is a common problem which is usually caused by the ALSA > audio driver which reports a wrong decibel value. > > [1] http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/580 > > please provide the output of "amixer -D pulse" when you set the volume control of alsamixer to (-3dB , -6dB , -12 dB , -24 dB and -48dB ) using "alsamixer -c 0"