[pulseaudio-discuss] Volume too loud in headphones with Intel HDA

[Ludovic Courtès]

Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> writes:

> On Wed, 03.03.10 23:17, Ludovic Courtès (ludo at gnu.org) wrote:
>
>> Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> writes:
>> 
>> > And which steps did you try? The output you pasted only shwos that you
>> > tested step 30 against 31. Would be interesting to test 0 to 10, 0r 5 to
>> > 30 or so. Please play around a little!
>> 
>> Step 0 is completely silent.
>> 
>> For 1 to 10, 1 to 15, 5 to 30, 20 to 30 there’s no audible difference in
>> volume.
>> 
>> Does this help?
>
> And, what if you test 0 against 30? Are both tones completely silent?

No.  The first one is completely silent but the second one is audible.

> If you can hear one, but not the other than there is some invalid dB
> data in the driver.

In that case, how can I work around it in the short term and help fix
the driver in the longer term?

Thanks,
Ludo’.