At Mon, 13 Oct 2014 23:25:10 +0300, Nerijus Baliunas wrote: > > On Wed, 03 Sep 2014 17:41:15 +0200 Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> wrote: > > > > > It's because the volume was overloaded in 3.14 and earlier. > > > > > > I suspected so, because in Windows I get a lower volume too. > > > > > > > It came through the mixer widget and it has the gain over 0dB. > > > > If you set 100% amp in the pin and sets more than 0dB in the mixer, > > > > it's basically more than 100%, overloading. > > > > > > > > That is, the new driver corrected the wrong volume setup. > > > > > > Is it possible to get the old volume level back by using a gnome/mate > > > mixer > > > (actually the volume buttons Fn+F7/F8)? > > > > No, not in that way. Also it's not good for your hardware. It can > > damage speakers easily. > > > > If you still want it, you can touch directly the volume via hda-verb > > command. First, change "Loopback" mixer enum to "Enabled" (e.g. via > > "alsamixer -c0"). Then change the amp of NID 0x17 to a higher value. > > For example, to really full volume (0x2b, 0x14 is 0dB): > > hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x17 SET_AMP 0xb02b > > > > But you were warned... > > Thank you. I ran hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x17 SET_AMP 0xb02b (as root, > because as a user I got permsision denied), but the volume did not increase: > > # hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x17 SET_AMP 0xb02b > nid = 0x17, verb = 0x300, param = 0xb02b > value = 0x0 > > The only way to increase volume is to use vlc and set the volume to 125%, but > it still too low and I can barely hear some movies. So is it possible to get > the old > 3.14 kernel volume back?
You can try to change other widget parameters to match with 3.14 via hda-verb. Basically it's just the amp setup in some widgets in the playback path. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
