[pulseaudio-discuss] Static when stream volume is at 100%

Ritesh Kumar ritesh at cs.unc.edu
Wed Dec 19 15:22:26 PST 2007


On Dec 19, 2007 4:34 PM, Alex Malinovich <demonbane at the-love-shack.net>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 12:09 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Wed, 19.12.07 02:49, Alex Malinovich (demonbane at the-love-shack.net)
> wrote:
> >
> > > > PA doesn't really care right now what the volume levels actually
> > > > mean. Thus, some people complain that they still can hear audio when
> > > > they set the level to "0%" or get awful artifacts when they set it
> to
> > > > "100%".
> > >
> > > If I use a standard ALSA output (without PA) at 100% volume, I don't
> get
> > > static. Whether it's me setting the ALSA volume at 100% or PA setting
> > > the ALSA volume at 100% it should be the same thing, right? Yet I only
> > > get static through PA.
> >
> > "*Only* static"? No real signal anymore?
> >
> > That's strange.
> >
> > Or just static as in "dropouts"?
> >
> > Please paste the output of pulseaudio -vv during playback somewhere.
>
> Sorry, bad choice of words. Static as in dropouts.
>
> Output of pulseaudio -vv is here:
>
> http://www.the-love-shack.net/pa-output.txt
>

The pulse audio log attached shows a failure in acquiring the mixer device.
Are you using a custom .asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf?

Ritesh
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