[pulseaudio-discuss] PA is very silent; doen't use the max hardware volume

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 23/01/14 18:39, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 23/01/14 18:25, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>> 2014/1/23 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at gmail.com>:
>>> On 23/01/14 17:42, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2014/1/23 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems that PA refuses to use the maximum hardware volume of my
>>>>> sound card [...]
>>>  [...]
>>> The control is named "Master Front".
>>
>> Then it is indeed not in the default mixer path [...]
>>
>> In order to work around it, you can try editing
>> /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output.conf and other
>> conf files in that directory that are relevant to outputs. Find the
>> [Front] section in each file and duplicate it to say [Master Front] in
>> the header. Please report if this helps.
>
> I've now duplicated all occurrences of [Element Front] (grep -r
> "Front\]") with [Element Master Front]. [...] It doesn't help.

I'm not sure what's going on here. I get conflicting control names when 
using amixer to show them. "amixer -c0" shows the following:

   http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=TxauYevj

There is no "Master Front" anywhere to be seen.