ASUS Xonar U3 volume slider problem
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Linux |
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alsa-driver (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I got an ASUS Xonar U3 USB sound card for my Thinkpad T420 for my birthday this year and tried to use it on Ubuntu 12.10. Unfortunately, its sound output is either bearably noticeable or - if I increase the volume by even the slightest notch with the audio indicator - EXTREMELY loud (and, because I use earphones, pretty painfully so).
I did some experiments with alsamixer, and it seems as if the complete volume range that I would expect to be stretched over the complete slider is compressed in the PCM levels between 1 and ~7. This means the only way I can sanefully use the USB sound card right now is by turning the volume in each application very, very low so that I have some amount of precision with the global volume slider (which I can control with function keys), but every time I forget this somewhere, it's a pretty painful surprise, so I hope this can be fixed.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 12 08:19:30 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-09 (63 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Symptom_Card: USB Advanced Audio Device - USB Advanced Audio Device
Symptom_Type: Volume slider, or mixer problems
Title: [USB-Audio - USB Advanced Audio Device, playback] volume slider problem
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-18 (24 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/12/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 83ET70WW (1.40 )
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 4180PH1
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:
dmi.product.name: 4180PH1
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
how about the patch which disable spdif ?
http:// thread. gmane.org/ gmane.linux. alsa.user/ 36816/focus= 36820