pulseaudio, no sound at half volume

[Dani Alonso]

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

pulseaudio 0.9.9-1ubuntu2

When, having the PCM slider at maximum volume, I expect that moving the master slider from maximum to minimum is going to proportionally reduce the volume, until near the minimum I'm not going to listen any output.

However, in my computer is happening that more or less, at two thirds from the maximum of the master slider the sound is barely noticeable, and at half the slider there is no output at all.

[Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier)]

There has been a couple of updates to the pulseaudio package since you reported this issue: is this still a problem for you?

[Dani Alonso (dalonso)]

Just updated today and this problem still is present.

Now with pulseaudio 0.9.10-1ubuntu

[Reece H. Dunn (msclrhd-gmail)]

I'm experiencing the same thing on my machine after upgrading from Gutsy (worked fine there) to Hardy (release version). To get Gutsy to work, I installed the linux packported drivers to support my HP pavilion.

[Reece H. Dunn (msclrhd-gmail)]

I found the answer here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4786193#post4786193.

Run `alsamixer` and set the volume to max. The volume set by the pulseaudio then scales properly when using apps that play audio to the ALSA driver.

[Dani Alonso (dalonso)]

 @Reece: Thanks for the info, nevertheless none of the solutions in the thread you cited worked for me. I already had the vaio option in modprobe, I already used alsamixer to set the volume to max. No luck, I still have the same behaviour.

[Nicolas Nobelis (nobelis)]

Greetings,

I have this problem in Intrepid with an Asus Xonar D1 (lspci = 06:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]).

There is not sound until the volume control bar is 70% filled. Then, in the last 30%, the sound grows exponentially.

"AV200 (OSS MIXER)" is selected in the default mixer track of gnome-sound-properties.

[Matthew Dutton (matthewrdutton)]

Also had this issue after 8.04->8.10 upgrade.

[xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!