Where to adjust volume for the emu10k

[Mathew Kanner]

On Nov 12, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> 
> I have a SB Live Value installed and the thing that bothered me since
> using FreeBSD is the very low volume on that card/chip. I have to turn
> the volume of my HiFi Equipment way up to hear anything. Now when
> switching to CD or FM playback I have to be very careful to first turn
> the volume down, otherwise my speakers may take damage. The Windows
> driver gets this right IMHO, there a 'moderate' mixer setting is needed
> to get a signal that's strong enough for my hifi.
> 
> Setting the FreeBSD mixer in the range of 95-100% results in
> distorted/overamplified sound. So the question is where to set a higher
> gain in the emu10k driver? I could live with a self-made patch, I only
> need someone to point me to documentation for that chip and the place
> where I would have to change things.
> 
> pcm0: <Creative EMU10K1> port 0xd000-0xd01f irq 5 at device 9.0 on pci0
> pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9721/23 AC97 Codec>

	I don't seem to have that problem.  Have you also set the PCM
volume?

	mixer pcm 90 vol 90

	Otherwise, show us the output of mixer.

	--Mat


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