[arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

[Norbert Zeh]

Tom Gundersen [2012.01.29 2241 +0100]:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Norbert Zeh <nzeh at cs.dal.ca> wrote:
> > Things I observed (on Ubuntu, Mint, openSUSE, Arch...so it's not
> > distro-specific) were way too low input (mic) and output volumes even when
> > setting the volume controls to 100%.  I really wanted to use PA because it
> > offers something ALSA does not: simultaneous audio streams from different
> > applications (i.e., when firing up Windows in a VirtualBox, it does not hog my
> > audio).  So I googled for hours, read through forum posts, etc. and all I could
> > find were hacks that either didn't work at all or resulted in the right volume
> > but at completely unacceptable distortion levels.
> >
> > So, I'm almost certain that I am doing something wrong with configuring my audio
> > setup using PA,
> 
> This sounds like a good, old-fashioned bug, I don't think you did
> anything wrong in your setup. Most likely your sound driver (ALSA) is
> exporting the wrong dB information to PulseAudio which means that PA's
> volume calculations will be nonsense. Please file a bug against ALSA.

Thanks, Tom.  Now that I know where to look next, I'll play with this next time
I have some spare time for this kind of stuff.

Cheers,
Norbert