On Thursday 27 January 2005 09:18 pm, Mike Thatcher wrote: > Well I finally got sound working. Using gnome volume control, when I > set the the "Headpone" & "PCM" to max and unmute I finally got sound > (yea). The master/master mono sliders have no effect. The volume > control which shows in the panel at the top of the gnome desktop has no > effect (I don't know what this is the front end for). However the volume > > Could someone explay why "Headphone" and not "Master" controls the volume? Apparently some cards have quirks? Once I added "options snd-via82xx dxs_support=4 ac97_quirk=1" to my modprobe.conf, control moved from Headphone to Master for me. PS: The volume control on the gnome desktop is just an interface to the alsa system, just like alsamixer. Or kmix, or whatever ...
