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

[Arun Raghavan]

On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 21:41 +0200, Julian Sikorski wrote:
> 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

This is behaviour that started with GNOME 3 for me. I'm not too happy
about it, to be honest. I'd like the >100% option to not be usable by
default (or at least not with the default volume up/down methods).

-- Arun