Some notes from upstream:
* John Fitzgerald <[email protected]> [2017-12-13 07:08 +1300]:
[...]
> The conclusion of those discussions is that while everyone else
> regards the volume as the range of which the device is capable,
> PulseAudio regards it as being the amplification required to give
> the desired volume, which is (as Enrico says) ridiculous.
>
> As the native PulseAudio sound driver was close at the time, I decided
> to wait and see if it provided a solution. However, progress on it
> have not progressed as quickly as I'd then envisaged and so it's still
> an ongoing problem for some people, but I have more time now to work
> on MOC (good solid coding days on Friday and yesterday) so I'll take a
> deeper look at the PulseAudio driver and see if it does indeed resolve
> the problem and if that solution can be ported to the ALSA driver.
> (I'm not convinced it's simply a matter of crippling the test.)
>
> But in my view, it remains a bug in PulseAudio that it does not correctly
> emulate the ALSA API in its ALSA emulation interface.
Thank you John for clarification :-)
@Enrico: Do you confirm to redirect to pulseaudio?
Thanks for cooperation
Elimar
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>what IMHO then?
IMHO - Inhalation of a Multi-leafed Herbal Opiate ;)
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