<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">2014/1/16 Gene Heskett <<a href="mailto:gheskett@wdtv.com" target="_blank">gheskett@wdtv.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> On Thursday 16 January 2014 09:48:10 Raymond Yau did opine: > 2014-1-16 ن¸‹هچˆ5:52 و–¼ "Alexander E. Patrakov" <<a href="mailto:patrakov@gmail.com" target="_blank">patrakov@gmail.com</a>> > ه¯«éپ“ï¼ڑ <div><div>> > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday 15 January 2014 18:02:04 Alexander E. Patrakov did opine: > > > > 2014/1/15 Gene Heskett <<a href="mailto:gheskett@wdtv.com" target="_blank">gheskett@wdtv.com</a>>: > > > > > Running an older ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS 32 bit build because a > > > > > specially patched rtai kernel is mandatory for one app. > > > > > However, I am booted > > to > > > > > > a 32bit 3.12.6 build ATM. > > > > > > > > > > The Audigy2 Value (SBO-400) card, and my amps/3way speaker all > > > > > went south for the winter in a space of about 3 weeks, so I > > > > > bought > > another > > > > > > amplified 3way kit and switched the audio back to the intel HDA > > > > > facilities on this motherboard. > > > > > > > > > > Is there anyplace where I might find another 20 db of gain? Its > > > > > so quiet, even a youtube video would never get me accused of > > > > > disturbing the peace. > > . > > > I have looked at the output. No smoking guns found (even with > > codecgraph), > > This seem abnormal > > Monitor of combined sink is running and the two slaves of combined sink > (HDMI and analog) are also running but HDMI is not plugged (unavailable) > > > > Source #2 State: RUNNING > Name: combined.monitor > Description: Monitor Source of Simultaneous output to Internal Audio > Analog Stereo, High Definition Audio Controller Digital Stereo (HDMI) > Driver: module-combine.c > Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz > Channel Map: front-left,front-right Owner > > Module: 10 > Mute: no > Volume: 0: 278% 1: 278% 0: 26.63 dB 1: 26.63 dB > balance 0.00 Base Volume: 100% 0.00 dB > Monitor of Sink: combined > Latency: 0 usec, configured 200000 usec > Flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY > Properties: > device.description = "Monitor Source of Simultaneous output to Internal > Audio Analog Stereo, High Definition Audio Controller Digital Stereo > (HDMI)" > device.class = "monitor" > device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone" > > > Sink #0 > State: RUNNING > Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_06.1. > analog-stereo > Description: Internal Audio Analog Stereo > Driver: module-alsa-card.c > Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz > Channel Map: front-left,front-right > Owner Module: 4 > Mute: no > Volume: 0: 100% 1: 100% > 0: 0.00 dB 1: 0.00 dB > balance 0.00 > Base Volume: 100% > 0.00 dB > Monitor Source: > alsa_output.pci-0000_00_06.1.analog-stereo.monitor Latency: 122184 > usec, configured 200000 usec > Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME > LATENCY Properties: > alsa.resolution_bits = "16" > device.api = "alsa" > device.class = "sound" > alsa.class = "generic" > alsa.subclass = "generic-mix" > <a href="http://alsa.name" target="_blank">alsa.name</a> = "AD1988B Analog" > <a href="http://alsa.id" target="_blank">alsa.id</a> = "AD1988B Analog" > alsa.subdevice = "0" > alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0" > alsa.device = "0" > alsa.card = "0" > alsa.card_name = "HDA NVidia" > alsa.long_card_name = "HDA NVidia at 0xfe020000 irq 20" > alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel" > device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:06.1" > sysfs.path = > "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/sound/card0" device.bus = "pci" > <a href="http://device.vendor.id" target="_blank">device.vendor.id</a> = "10de" > <a href="http://device.vendor.name" target="_blank">device.vendor.name</a> = "nVidia Corporation" > <a href="http://device.product.id" target="_blank">device.product.id</a> = "0371" > <a href="http://device.product.name" target="_blank">device.product.name</a> = "MCP55 High Definition Audio" > device.form_factor = "internal" > device.string = "front:0" > device.buffering.buffer_size = "65536" > device.buffering.fragment_size = "32768" > device.access_mode = "mmap+timer" > <a href="http://device.profile.name" target="_blank">device.profile.name</a> = "analog-stereo" > device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo" > device.description = "Internal Audio Analog Stereo" > alsa.mixer_name = "Analog Devices AD1988B" > alsa.components = "HDA:11d4198b,104381f6,00100400" > module-udev-detect.discovered = "1" > device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci" > Ports: > analog-output: Analog Output (priority. 9900) > analog-output-headphones: Analog Headphones (priority. > 9000) > Active Port: analog-output > > Sink #1 > State: RUNNING > Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_03_00.1.hdmi-stereo > Description: High Definition Audio Controller Digital Stereo > (HDMI) Driver: module-alsa-card.c > Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz > Channel Map: front-left,front-right > Owner Module: 5 > Mute: no > Volume: 0: 100% 1: 100% > 0: 0.00 dB 1: 0.00 dB > balance 0.00 > Base Volume: 100% > 0.00 dB > Monitor Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_03_00.1.hdmi-stereo.monitor > Latency: 122243 usec, configured 200000 usec > Flags: HARDWARE DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY > Properties: > alsa.resolution_bits = "16" > device.api = "alsa" > device.class = "sound" > alsa.class = "generic" > alsa.subclass = "generic-mix" > <a href="http://alsa.name" target="_blank">alsa.name</a> = "HDMI 0" > <a href="http://alsa.id" target="_blank">alsa.id</a> = "HDMI 0" > alsa.subdevice = "0" > alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0" > alsa.device = "3" > alsa.card = "1" > alsa.card_name = "HDA NVidia" > alsa.long_card_name = "HDA NVidia at 0xf9ffc000 irq 16" > alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel" > device.bus_path = "pci-0000:03:00.1" > sysfs.path = > "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.0/0000:03:00.1/sound/card1" > device.bus = "pci" > <a href="http://device.vendor.id" target="_blank">device.vendor.id</a> = "10de" > <a href="http://device.vendor.name" target="_blank">device.vendor.name</a> = "nVidia Corporation" > <a href="http://device.product.id" target="_blank">device.product.id</a> = "0be3" > <a href="http://device.product.name" target="_blank">device.product.name</a> = "High Definition Audio Controller" > device.string = "hdmi:1" > device.buffering.buffer_size = "65536" > device.buffering.fragment_size = "32768" > device.access_mode = "mmap+timer" > <a href="http://device.profile.name" target="_blank">device.profile.name</a> = "hdmi-stereo" > device.profile.description = "Digital Stereo (HDMI)" > device.description = "High Definition Audio Controller > Digital Stereo (HDMI)" > alsa.mixer_name = "Nvidia GPU 0b HDMI/DP" > alsa.components = "HDA:10de000b,10de0101,00100200" > module-udev-detect.discovered = "1" > device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci" > > > > > state.NVidia_1 { > control.1 { > comment.access read > comment.type BOOLEAN > comment.count 1 > iface CARD > name 'HDMI/DP,pcm=3 Jack' > value false > } > > control.8 { > comment.access read > comment.type BOOLEAN > comment.count 1 > iface CARD > name 'HDMI/DP,pcm=7 Jack' > value false > } > control.15 { > comment.access read > comment.type BOOLEAN > comment.count 1 > iface CARD > name 'HDMI/DP,pcm=8 Jack' > value false > } > > control.22 { > comment.access read > comment.type BOOLEAN > comment.count 1 > iface CARD > name 'HDMI/DP,pcm=9 Jack' > value false > } </div></div>I am not sure what conclusion to draw from this although I'm somewhat surprised its only a 16 bit chipset. </blockquote><div> <a href="http://www.analog.com/en/codec-afe/audio-codecs/ad1988b/products/product.html" target="_blank">http://www.analog.com/en/codec-afe/audio-codecs/ad1988b/products/product.html</a> Default PCM: rates [0x7ff]: 8000 11025 16000 22050 32000 44100 48000 88200 96000 176400 192000 bits [0xe]: 16 20 24 formats [0x1]: PCM</div> post the outout of </div><div class="gmail_quote">pactl stat </div><div class="gmail_quote"> <div>are you using the module-combine-sink as default sink? </div><div> are you using this to output to analog, spdif and hdmi at the same time ? </div><div> </div><div>Can pulseaudio find the volume control of the combine-sink when hdmi and spdif does not has any volume control ? </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> Thanks to finding another control and turning it up, I now do have enough gain I can listen to a news story on cnn, al-jazzera or faux. It's not feasable to pick up the speakers and use them for headphones, and I don't have a 1/8 to 1/4" adapter for my big phones. A set of Optimus Pro 4AA's. Quite decent phones to these formerly golden but now fading ears. </blockquote><div>only green line out, headphone and front mic pin complex have HP amp </div><div>the sound is bad when you connect headphone to the other line out jacks (black, orange and grey) </div></div> </div><div class="gmail_extra">if you still have applications which expect a full duplex card at card0 , it is better to swap the position of the two cards by </div><div class="gmail_extra">options snd-hda-intel index=1,0 <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73336">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73336</a> </div></div>