[pulseaudio-discuss] Realtek ALC892 being overdriven to 153 % volume

Julian Sikorski belegdol at gmail.com
Sun Jun 19 12:41:20 PDT 2011


W dniu 19.06.2011 20:13, Julian Sikorski pisze:
> W dniu 2011-06-19 18:15, Colin Guthrie pisze:
>> 'Twas brillig, and Julian Sikorski at 19/06/11 09:20 did gyre and gimble:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> again, this is on a Clevo P150HM laptop. When I use Fn-F5/F6 keys in
>>> Gnome, it is possible to get the volume up to 153 %, which sometimes
>>> leads to sound distortion. Is this the intended behaviour?
>>
>> PA recommends UIs allow volumes to be overdriven to +11dB which is 153%.
>>
>> That said, I wouldn't personally recommend that the volume keys on a
>> laptop allow volumes to go up that high... I'd say they should be stuck
>> to PA_VOLUME_NORM aka 100%
>>
>> Which version of gnome is this? In my 2.x it's limited to 100% with the
>> keys even if the UIs can go up to 153%
>>
>> Col
>>
> This is on gnome 3.0 running gnome-shell, I can test the fallback mode
> (gnome-panel + metacity) later
> 
> Julian
Gnome 3 in fallback mode still goes up to 153 %, while KDE wants to
regulate my nvidia hdmi output for some reason.

Julian



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