Re: Why can I only set some magic volumes for inputs.mic ? (0, 85, 170, 255)

2012-09-16 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 22:53, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: The following script sets volumes from 0 to 255 but fails for any values except 0, 85, 170, 255... ideas? Your hardware (or driver) only supports 4 volume levels, so it rounds off the value provided.

Re: Why can I only set some magic volumes for inputs.mic ? (0, 85, 170, 255)

2012-09-16 Thread Mihai Popescu
Excerpt from http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html As a basic example of common mixerctl usage, to set the volume of the left and right channels to 200, you would issue $ mixerctl outputs.master=200,200 outputs.master: 255,255 - 207,207 Notice how the value becomes 207. The reason for this is