20 May
2006
20 May
'06
3:10 p.m.
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 17:07 +0000, c wrote:
On Sat May 20, 2006 at 09:27:56AM -0500, Gene Heskett
wrote:
Distortion if all volumes are set to 100% is not necessarily a bug.
It's just the way some hardware works.
Lee
often sounding as if the playback is of a file
that over-drove the d/a in playback, or the a/d in the recording, eg clipped.
...
the ATI-IXP audio stuffs loaded
the ATIIXP in my MSI exhibits this same issue. essentially, if the 'PCM' level is
set to 100%, things are horribly overdriven. the solution is to set the Master to 100%,
and adjust volume with PCM, instead of vice versa. i guess whether this is a hardware bug
or a driver bug depends on if PCM is the last point of software contact with the stream
and master trims the levels after that, or if PCM just does some multiplication on the
bits before passing them to the Master..