Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] 100% volume limit bogus

2019-02-08 Thread liebrecht
Thank you for introducing me to pactl I mapped pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +10% To shift+VolumeUpButton on my keyboard. I can now go to where I want. and. The dreaded 40% max is still in place for a hapless user that gets my keyboard and starts pressing volume buttons. Not

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] 100% volume limit bogus

2019-02-07 Thread liebrecht
You are right, but why have a slider that goes to 150%, but you are only allowed to use it to 100% ? unless you open up the mixer and drag it. Problem is I always need it at about 150% but the keyboard controls go to 100% Maybe just make it 100% max and be done with it and thereby fo0rce the

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] 100% volume limit bogus

2019-02-07 Thread Georg Chini
On 08.02.19 01:21, liebre...@grossmann-venter.com wrote: I found an interesting reason why this 100% Volume policy in pavucontrol is actually detrimental. The sound is very low with the pavucontrol 100% and my keyboard buttons cannot go past that as that is how pavu controls it. Its fair,

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] 100% volume limit bogus

2019-02-07 Thread liebrecht
Thank you very much I appreciate the response. I appreciate it. I did find that option looking at the daemon settings, but it didnt look like it would solve my problem. I will try again. There is a setting to disable flat volumes, which is probably what you want. See the "flat-volumes"

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] 100% volume limit bogus

2019-02-07 Thread Sean Greenslade
On February 7, 2019 4:21:05 PM PST, liebre...@grossmann-venter.com wrote: >I found an interesting reason why this 100% Volume policy in >pavucontrol >is actually detrimental. > >The sound is very low with the pavucontrol 100% and my keyboard buttons > >cannot go past that as that is how pavu

[pulseaudio-discuss] 100% volume limit bogus

2019-02-07 Thread liebrecht
I found an interesting reason why this 100% Volume policy in pavucontrol is actually detrimental. The sound is very low with the pavucontrol 100% and my keyboard buttons cannot go past that as that is how pavu controls it. Its fair, but as soon as I start QEMU, (which uses pulseaudio as