Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:17:18 +0100
Message-ID: <s5hvfl6ifdd.wl@alsa2.suse.de>
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Witold Krecicki <adasi@kernel.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: snd-powermac volume setting broken?
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At Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:12:21 +0100,
Witold Krecicki wrote:
> 
> Dnia poniedzia?ek 15 marzec 2004 11:07, napisa?e?:
> > At Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:15:17 +0100,
> >
> > Witold Krecicki wrote:
> > > When I use alsa snd-powermac driver, the lowest volume setting (but
> > > without muting) is at about half of full volume, it's impossible to get
> > > any volume level between mute and vol=0. Is that a bug or a feature?
> >
> > not a bug - the chip doesn't support the level below vol=0 and it's
> > not totally silent.
> but it's not like 'not totally silent' but 'pretty loud'. On OSX volume scale 
> is just fine.

ok, my comment was a rough guess which i experienced once (IIRC, it
was a screamer).  so let me know the chipset on your machine, shown in
/proc/asound/cards.  if it's tumbler or snapper, this behavior should
be a bug of the driver.


Takashi
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