[alsa-devel] Negative volume steps?

[Clemens Ladisch]

Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> If a driver claims that the lowest volume step (integer step, not dB) of
> a volume element is -126 and the highest step is 0, is the driver
> broken?

No.

> I'm asking, because apparently there are such drivers, but Pulseaudio
> currently assumes that the volume steps are never negative.

The maximum is higher than the minimum, so how would a step be negative?

What exactly is the problem with PulseAudio?


Regards,
Clemens