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Date:      Thu, 02 Mar 2000 20:24:08 CST
From:      "Nathan Sheeley" <nsheeley@hotmail.com>
To:        mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org, nsheeley@hotmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sounb Blaster PCI 128, help!
Message-ID:  <20000303022408.29619.qmail@hotmail.com>

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>How much did you try to change it by?

To 90 previously.

Nothing seems to change mine:

root@/home/nsheeley% mixer vol 97
Setting the mixer vol to 97:97.
root@/home/nsheeley% mixer vol
Mixer vol      is currently set to 100:100
root@/home/nsheeley% mixer vol 0
Setting the mixer vol to 0:0.
root@/home/nsheeley% mixer vol
Mixer vol      is currently set to 100:100
root@/home/nsheeley% mixer vol 100
Setting the mixer vol to 100:100.
root@/home/nsheeley% mixer vol
Mixer vol      is currently set to 100:100
root@/home/nsheeley% mixer vol 40
Setting the mixer vol to 40:40.
root@/home/nsheeley% mixer vol 10
Setting the mixer vol to 10:10.
root@/home/nsheeley% mixer vol 5
Setting the mixer vol to 5:5.
root@/home/nsheeley% mixer vol
Mixer vol      is currently set to 100:100
root@/home/nsheeley% mixer pcm 50 vol 50
Setting the mixer pcm to 50:50.
Setting the mixer vol to 50:50.
root@/home/nsheeley% mixer pcm vol
Mixer pcm      is currently set to 100:100
Mixer vol      is currently set to 100:100


>The cause is that the soundcard only has 64 steps for the volume but
>mixer(8) and the ioctl() has 100 so there is a loss of precision when
>converting back and forward. I'm working on a solution.

That makes sense.
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