Revolution 5.1 volume is low

[Stefan Ehmann]

On Sunday 02 December 2007 17:57:30 Andrey Slusar wrote:
> Sun, 2 Dec 2007 13:00:46 +0100, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 December 2007 11:43:50 Andrey Slusar wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I have the Revolution 5,1 sound card on latest FreeBSD 7,0-BETA3, use
> > > the driver snd_envy24ht. Sound is works fine with one problem - sound
> > > volume is very low. I'm try:
> > >
> > > mixer vol 100
> > > mixer vol 50
> > > mixer vol 0
> > >
> > > It's no effect. I'm try:
> > >
> > > mixer pcm 0 - sound mute
> > > mixer pcm 50 - volume is low
> > > mixer pcm 100 - volume is low
> >
> > I recently reported that volume control doesn't work for via8233:
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2007-October/007581
> >.html
> >
> > Maybe this is related.My soundcard seems to be initialized at maximum
> > volume though.
>
>  mixer pcm 100 is not works for your sound card?


As I described in the messsage I provided a link to:

With envy24 (not ht!) volume control only has an effect below 50, on 6.2 it 
worked as expected.

For testing purposes, I tried onboard sound (via8233) where mixer vol has no 
effect at all.

mixer pcm works fine in both cases.