[alsa-devel] Default volume for all soundcards (-20dB by default?)

[David Henningsson]

On 2015-06-17 17:56, Jo wrote:
> Thanks David for your answer !
>
> I tried this in /usr/share/alsa/init/default  but it doesn't change
> anything (-20dB again on next reboot) :
>
> # Default ALSA volume levels and setting when initialization database fails.
> # [...]
> #
> # **************************************************************************
> # playback
> # **************************************************************************
>
> ENV{ppercent}:="75%"
> ENV{cpercent}:="75%"
> ENV{pvolume}:="-3dB"
>
>
>
> This sentence
>
> # Default ALSA volume levels and setting when initialization database fails.
>
> seems to show there is another database elsewhere, where should I try to
> set -3 dB ?

The database referred to is /var/lib/alsa/asound.state - this only 
applies to sound cards never seen before. And potentially other files in 
/usr/share/alsa/init that could override the default, but I suspect that 
is not the case here.

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