Bug 497945
| Summary: | PA needs to merge Master/PCM into a single slider | ||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno> | ||||||||
| Component: | pulseaudio | Assignee: | Lennart Poettering <lpoetter> | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||||
| Version: | 11 | CC: | awilliam, lkundrak, lpoetter, wtogami | ||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2009-06-29 11:12:28 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||
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hmm, I just noticed the diffs might not have enough context. can you also attached the amixer_before.txt and amixer_after.txt? sorry, my fault. thanks! -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers Created attachment 341509 [details]
amixer_before.txt
Created attachment 341510 [details]
amixer_after.txt
I still had the files hanging around, so it was easy to provide them.
I think I might have implied I have more volume headroom after the change than I really do. After raising PCM to max, I usually have master close to or at max, depending on what I am playing.
One other odd thing was in your message you mention gnome-volume-control, but I don't see that available. I use pulseaudio volume control or the volume control in the app. gnome-volume-control went away sometime during rawhide. I used to see weird messages related to it when switching between F10 and F11 using the same /home .
gnome-volume-control is provided by gnome-media in Rawhide. It's included in a default install. do you have that package installed? if the volume even with all sliders in alsamixer or gnome-alsamixer at max is still fairly low (if you can compare with Windows that'd be great), that's also a bug, but a different one; we'd need a separate report for that. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers I have gnome-media installed. I can run gnome-volume-control directly. For some reason I can find menu for it so I can put it back on my panel. It got messed up in a relatively early F11 rawhide and I started using the pulse audio volume control instead. On some machines I have done fresh installs on (very recently), the normal gnome volume control is there, so I just need to look harder. I think the maximum sound output level is reasonable considering that the speakers are being driven entirely by the sound card without their own amps. But I don't know enough about sound devices to be completely sure of that opinion. This machine has never had windows on it. I built it from parts. If these are truly passive speakers (which is very unusual for computer speakers), then it would be normal for the maximum available volume to be very quiet, yes. The minimal level of amplification that most sound cards are capable of is nowhere near enough to drive speakers to any high level of volume. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers They have no power source other than the sound card output. They were scrounged from a system I bought around 1995. Ah, OK. Then yes, quietness is to be expected :) actually...can you test with a pair of earphones or headphones, and see whether you get comfortable volume out of those with just the Pulse volume control? I'm not sure a pair of 1995 vintage passive speakers is a great test... -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers I only did a quick test with the headphones because I am getting some crashes that appear to be correlated with sound playing and load. (That's another ticket that I owe a crash dump for, but the crash dump feature doesn't play well with encrypted root, so it's been taking more time than I had hoped.) Anyway, after running alsactl init and having the volume at or near max (the system crashed before I could double check settings) the headphones were at a comfortable level. So while they are usable (where as the speakers wouldn't have been), again there's not a lot of headroom. OK, so basically what I needed to know is that increasing the default setting of the second channel won't make things painfully loud in a more 'normal' setup than a pair of very old speakers. Which seems to be true, so we could go ahead and change the default for the second channel. thanks. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers Hmm, I don't think the ALSA db should cater for particular un-amped speakers. I think it is better to handle this inside of PA, i.e. by merging 'PCM' and 'Master' into a single slider, as I have been planning. I am now renaming this bug, to keep track of the PCM/Master merging logic. This will be stuff for F12 That sounds fine to me. For what I do, only the combined value makes a difference. lennart: "Hmm, I don't think the ALSA db should cater for particular un-amped speakers." that's why I asked him to do the headphone test. But yeah, the results of that are borderline, it probably doesn't make sense to make a change to the DB based solely on this data. This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping The PA version in Rawhide now merges PCM/Master |
Created attachment 341503 [details] alsa info Description of problem: As requested by Adam I am filing this because I needed to run alsamixer in order to get a loud enough volume level on one of my machines. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pulseaudio-0.9.15-11.fc11.i586 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: This is with a pair of small unamped speakers sitting on my desk. Before fixing things the maximum volume is audible but too quiet. After raising the PCM level to the max I have some head room with the master volume and don't need to increase it all of the way up to get a comfortable level. Expected results: Additional info: --- amixer_before.txt 2009-04-27 21:26:01.000000000 -0500 +++ amixer_after.txt 2009-04-27 21:31:42.000000000 -0500 @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: - Front Left: Playback 17 [55%] [-21.00dB] [on] - Front Right: Playback 17 [55%] [-21.00dB] [on] + Front Left: Playback 25 [81%] [-9.00dB] [on] + Front Right: Playback 25 [81%] [-9.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Master Mono',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: - Front Left: Playback 23 [74%] [0.00dB] [on] - Front Right: Playback 23 [74%] [0.00dB] [on] + Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on] + Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Line',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0