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

2010-03-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 03.03.10 16:47, Ludovic Courtès (l...@gnu.org) wrote: Hi, The document at http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PulseAudioStoleMyVolumes didn’t really answer my question, so here we go. I’m using PA on a Dell Latitude D430 laptop that has an Intel HDA sound card [0] with a “headphone” jack.

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

2010-03-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Lennart Poettering lenn...@poettering.net writes: On Wed, 03.03.10 16:47, Ludovic Courtès (l...@gnu.org) wrote: Hi, The document at http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PulseAudioStoleMyVolumes didn’t really answer my question, so here we go. I’m using PA on a Dell Latitude D430 laptop that

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

2010-03-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 03.03.10 18:18, Ludovic Courtès (l...@gnu.org) wrote: Sounds like a case of incorrect dB information. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/decibel-data.html http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/BadDecibel [0] FWIW, here’s the beginning of the output of ‘dbverify’: So, you did find our

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

2010-03-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Lennart Poettering lenn...@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,

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

2010-03-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 03.03.10 23:17, Ludovic Courtès (l...@gnu.org) wrote: Lennart Poettering lenn...@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

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

2010-03-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 04.03.10 01:00, Ludovic Courtès (l...@gnu.org) wrote: 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. Ah, there you go. The dB data for step 0 is incorrect: it claims to be something