From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 18:24:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f233.law3.hotmail.com [209.185.241.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C74437B52E for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:24:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsheeley@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 29620 invoked by uid 0); 3 Mar 2000 02:24:08 -0000 Message-ID: <20000303022408.29619.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 24.27.6.79 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 02 Mar 2000 18:24:08 PST X-Originating-IP: [24.27.6.79] From: "Nathan Sheeley" To: mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org, nsheeley@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sounb Blaster PCI 128, help! Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 20:24:08 CST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message