Comment 37 for bug 16454
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| Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez) wrote | #37 |
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> What's very curious about this is you can get some weird behavior.
> Open up a movie in totem, then turn your system volume to 0. You'll
> still hear sound. But, strangely, that sound will then get quieter
> when you lower the totem volume, even though in theory everything
> should be "muted."
What is so strange? Two cases that may explain that behaviour:
* Alsamixer does not have a clue what is the maximum/minimum volume of the device. So setting volume ~0 does not actually sets the device to the minimum volume.
* Alsamixer defines incorrectly the relation between the master and PCM. That is, huge changes in the master may result in small changes in PCM volume: you change master from 50% to 0% (mixer) volume, but the PCM goes from 50% to 25% (real) volume.