On mine laptop the "Settings" are 0%-100%-(unspecified)%, I'm not sure why you're getting a really long number. Using a non-english locale maybe? Bug in drivers / pulse? On Sep 27, 2015 10:53, "kendell clark" <coffeekin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi > Ah, this makes a lotmore sense. If I had to suggest a change, I'd > recommend changing the volume slider in settings to read out percentages > instead of numbers. That is, instead of saying 31454 31 percent, simply > say 31 percent. I'm not sure what those numbers are for, but I'm > assuming raw data that's received from the sound card, that is, the > sound card doesn't think in percentages but in digits. For some reason > there's a magic number which is often translated into 100 percent, which > is 65536. I think it has something to do with bit counts or something in > the processor registers, but that kind of stuff is way over my head. > Long way of saying, I think the volume sliders should give percentages, > rather than decimal points. I wonder why the settings in gnome shell > allow you to adjust beyond 100 percent? When I tried that with my > headset, I had to hold it a foot away from my ears and the sound was > extremely distorted. Surprised the speakers didn't blow. Which makes me > even more curious. What is windows doing? Does it use the same measure? > Mellisa's windows box says 50 percent, but according to gnome the volume > is actually closer to 80 percent at the same loudness level, but of > course I'm no expert. One interesting bit between the two is that in > linux, when I plugged the headset in and switched sound to it, the sound > was inaudible until I adjusted the volume. When I did the same thing on > a windows box the volume jumped in the task bar thing from where Mellisa > had it, which is usually around 30 percent, to 55 percent, but the > volume stayed the same. It was audible as soon as it was plugged in and > windows did it's thing. I wonder why linux didn't do that as well? I'm > not a regular user of windows and have very little idea how it actually > works. I take it it's not a bug then. Should pulse audio jump the volume > with some hardware? This seems to be something particular to this > logitech headset, as the one I had before this did jump when plugged in. > Very odd. I'm not saying that the users choice should be taken away, > more curious than anything. > Thanks > Kendell clark > > > On 09/27/2015 09:22 AM, Florian Müllner wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 12:52 PM, kendell clark <coffeekin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> There seems to be two different sound volumes. I'll demonstrate. > >> First, go into the sound settings panel in the control center. [...] > >> I hear: output volume: slider 31454 31 percent. If I check the same > >> thing on the top bar under settings, I hear: volume slider 0.5 47 > percent. > > > > Both sliders control the same volume, however the one in gnome-shell > > has a range from 0 to 100%, while the one in Settings allows to > > amplify the volume to higher values (about 150%). As it happends, 31% > > on a 0-150 range indeed matches 47% on a 0-100 range. > > > > To indicate that difference, the slider in Settings has a visible > > marker at 100%, but that obviously does not translate to screen > > readers - IMHO the best option would be to modify the slider in > > Settings to read out percentage values in the 0-150% range, however > > I'm not sure whether that's actually possible with ATK. Another option > > would be to modify the slider in gnome-shell to use the actual volume > > values instead of mapping them to values between 0.0 and 1.0 - the > > percentages would still differ due to the different upper limits, but > > at least the values would match up in that case. > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
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