New install: No master volume...

[Bruno Dusausoy]

On mer, 2004-12-01 at 19:35 +1300, Worik wrote:
> Friends
> 
> i have a new laptop with a 0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi 
> Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
> 
> 
> A default installation so am using alsa.
> 
> Applications can set their own volume independantly.
> 
> "A GNOME/GStreamer-based mixer application"  has two tabs:  "C-Media 
> Electronics CMI9739 [OSS Mixer]" and "ALI 5451 [Alsa Mixer]".
> 
> The first has a PCM volume control that when it is at minimum there is 
> no sound.  Any other setting it is on max.
> 
I have an integrated soundcard on my motherboard. It's a CMI-9739A. It
doesn"t have a volume control integrated. So you simply can't adjust the
volume (no it's really not a joke). I had to buy a SBLive! ...
It works under Windows because the driver adjust the volume by software,
not hardware ...

> The other tab has a PCM check box, that works in a similar manner.
> 
> The "Volume Control" applet has no effect at all but it's display 
> reflects the setting of PCM on the first mixer tab.
> 
> ciao
> Worik
> 
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Bruno Dusausoy <bdusauso at beeznest.net>