On Jun 19, 2011 4:20 AM, "Julian Sikorski" <<a href="mailto:belegdol@gmail.com">belegdol@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > 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? > The current distros I see shipping GNOME don't push the "max" for volume keys/wheel beyond "100%". If you're seeing this distortion, it looks like an alsa-devel driver bug. We need alsa-info.sh output to diagnose this (or a link to a bug report with said output) . Which raises the question: should we even patch the drivers to cap at 0 dB if we're allowing this boost? Cheers, -Dan