<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Hi Felipe,<br><br>My kernel has been updated since the first mail I sent.<br>root@pc-jean-debian:/home/jean# uname -a<br>Linux pc-jean-debian 3.16-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.5-1 (2014-10-10) x86_64 GNU/Linux<br><br>The volume issue remains.<br><br>"Element Front Mic Boost" "volume" is already "off". I tried to set "Element Mic Boost" "volume" from "merge" to "0". But it muted everything.<br><br><br>***THE CONF FILE<br><br>[General]<br>priority = 87<br>description-key = analog-input-microphone<br><br>[Jack Mic]<br>required-any = any<br><br>[Jack Mic Phantom]<br>required-any = any<br>state.plugged = unknown<br>state.unplugged = unknown<br><br>[Element Capture]<br>switch = mute<br>volume = merge<br>override-map.1 = all<br>override-map.2 = all-left,all-right<br><br>[Element Mic Boost]<br>required-any = any<br>switch = select<br>volume = merge<br>override-map.1 = all<br>override-map.2 = all-left,all-right<br><br>[Option Mic Boost:on]<br>name = input-boost-on<br><br>[Option Mic Boost:off]<br>name = input-boost-off<br><br>[Element Mic]<br>required-any = any<br>switch = mute<br>volume = merge<br>override-map.1 = all<br>override-map.2 = all-left,all-right<br><br>[Element Input Source]<br>enumeration = select<br><br>[Option Input Source:Mic]<br>name = analog-input-microphone<br>required-any = any<br><br>[Element Capture Source]<br>enumeration = select<br><br>[Option Capture Source:Mic]<br>name = analog-input-microphone<br>required-any = any<br><br>;;; Some AC'97s have "Mic Select" and "Mic Boost (+20dB)"<br><br>[Element Mic Select]<br>enumeration = select<br><br>[Option Mic Select:Mic1]<br>name = input-microphone<br>priority = 20<br><br>[Option Mic Select:Mic2]<br>name = input-microphone<br>priority = 19<br><br>[Element Mic Boost (+20dB)]<br>switch = select<br>volume = merge<br><br>[Option Mic Boost (+20dB):on]<br>name = input-boost-on<br><br>[Option Mic Boost (+20dB):off]<br>name = input-boost-off<br><br>[Element Front Mic]<br>switch = off<br>volume = off<br><br>[Element Internal Mic]<br>switch = off<br>volume = off<br><br>[Element Rear Mic]<br>switch = off<br>volume = off<br><br>[Element Dock Mic]<br>switch = off<br><br>volume = off<br><br>[Element Dock Mic Boost]<br>switch = off<br>volume = off<br><br>[Element Internal Mic Boost]<br>switch = off<br>volume = off<br><br>[Element Front Mic Boost]<br>switch = off<br>volume = off<br><br>[Element Rear Mic Boost]<br>switch = off<br>volume = off<br><br>.include analog-input-mic.conf.common<br><br><br>Best regards<br>Jean<br><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>De: </b>"Felipe Sateler" <fsateler@debian.org><br><b>À: </b>"Jean Bernon" <jbernon@free.fr><br><b>Cc: </b>766781@bugs.debian.org<br><b>Envoyé: </b>Vendredi 7 Novembre 2014 21:10:43<br><b>Objet: </b>Re: Bug#766781: pavucontrol: Input volume cannot be more than 39%<br><br>Hi Jean,<br><br>On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:02 AM, <jbernon@free.fr> wrote:<br>> New thing. My jessie installation was a standard one with very few contrib<br>> and non free packets. Following your idea about alsa, I installed<br>> alsa-firmware. It fixed one point (both the jack microphone and the built-in<br>> one are working now) but not the weird thing between alsa mic boost bar and<br>> pavucontrol volume level.<br><br>OK I just confirmed that this is desired behavior is pulseaudio, and<br>that this is probably a bug in your driver.<br><br>Pulseaudio by default "merges" the mic and mic boost controls into a<br>single volume control. What is happening to you is that the boost<br>control seems to be broken.<br><br>Please try upgrading your kernel (your kernel was a few versions<br>behind when you reported the bug). If that doesn't work out, we should<br>reassign this bug to the kernel.<br><br>As a workaround, you can try editing<br>/usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-input-mic.conf and<br>inside the element [Element Front Mic Boost], set "volume = zero".<br>That should disable merging of the two controls.<br><br>-- <br><br>Saludos,<br>Felipe Sateler<br></div><br></div></body></html>