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Description of problem: 1. Audio began playback at such a high level, and so distorted that I'm surprised that my headphones drivers were not melted. 2. Additionally, while ramping volume, only on every 3rd or 4th notch of the volume control does the audio play through cleanly. Those other spots, the audio goes into full distortion. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fresh install of rawhide (2009-11-03) alsa-lib-1.0.21-3.fc12.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.21-2.fc12.i686 alsa-utils-1.0.21-2.fc12.i686 kernel-2.6.31.5-96.fc12.i686 kernel-firmware-2.6.31.5-96.fc12.noarch pulseaudio-0.9.19-1.fc12.i686 pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.19-1.fc12.i686 pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.19-1.fc12.i686 pulseaudio-libs-0.9.19-1.fc12.i686 pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.19-1.fc12.i686 pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.19-1.fc12.i686 pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.19-1.fc12.i686 pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.19-1.fc12.i686 pulseaudio-utils-0.9.19-1.fc12.i686 rhythmbox-0.12.5-7.fc12.i686 How reproducible: Keeps occurring. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Installed F10. No customizations 2. upgrade to rawhide via preupgrade 3. open rhythmbox 4. choose an internet radio station. b) adjust the volume level with the speaker icon or with the Sound preferences dialog. Actual results: 1. audio came through at such a level that if my headphones where on my ears, it might have been equivalent to a jumbo jet taking off at close quarters. 2. for most increments, even in the 5 to 10% range, the audio is hugely distorted, then back to normal for a single increment (via scroll wheel or cursor-ing on the volume bar). 3. By the 15% value, audio is already far louder than most people could ever need. Expected results: 1. redhat really doesn't want to be responsible for blowing peoples eardrums ! The audio level should be reasonable. Audio should not be distorted during playback at fader levels of 5%. Additional info: please, I'm happy to give any test / info needed to get this sorted out. Happy to provide analog recording of the distortion made with another machine (running F10) if that would help characterise the distortion issue ?
(In reply to comment #0) > Description of problem: > 1. Audio began playback at such a high level, and so distorted that I'm > surprised that my headphones drivers were not melted. That's a case for the ALSA mixer initialization database. Please run "alsactl init 0". This should put your card back into initial default (and too loud) setup. Then, please use gnome-volume-control to configure a good volume and paste the output of "amixer -c0" and "alsa-info.sh --no-upload" here. This will allow us to add an entry for your card to the default mixer initialization database so that the volume will be configured sensibly by default in the future. > 2. Additionally, while ramping volume, only on every 3rd or 4th notch of the > volume control does the audio play through cleanly. Those other spots, the > audio goes into full distortion. Sounds like bug 530049. And is fixed. You can temporarily fix this by setting the env var PULSE_NO_SIMD=1 when running PA.
Created attachment 367797 [details] alsa-info.sh --no-upload 1. alsactl init 0 Unknown hardware: "NFORCE" "Realtek ALC650E" "AC97a:414c4722" "0x1043" "0x8095" Hardware is initialized using a guess method See attachment for log after setting gnome-volume-control to a decent level 21%, and This worked well with a pair of headphones, and an external amplifier turned up fairly high, to allow for gnome-volume-control to allow setting of the level up to close to output level. The same level sent into a Sony TV VGA + audio IP comes through at a much lower level, and the TV needs to be turned up to 7-% for this same level to be reasonable. 2. pulseaudio -k && PULSE_NO_SIMD=1 pulseaudio solves the distorted attenuation that was previously occurring through most steps of the volume range. cat /proc/cpuinfo: model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 2074.307 cache size : 256 KB ... cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up bogomips : 4148.61
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