epulse allows to increase volume beyond 100%
srakitnican opened this issue · 7 comments
In latest master tree, mixer allows to increase volume beyond 100% with a mouse scroll wheel.
I am pretty fine with this feature as my Lenovo E31-70 loudspeakers are not very efficient. We had a discussion about this in the Bodhi forums.
https://forums.bodhilinux.com/index.php?/topic/15112-pulseaudio-security-concerns/&tab=comments#comment-109014
I atleast fixed the notification range as it was visible beyond 100 %.
JeffHoogland/moksha-pulsemixer@5e3e3e6
The pulsemixer is now a part of moksha core...
It says I don't have permissions to view that when I try to open the forum link.
Oh, sorry. It is under development section :(
Maybe I will dare to quote Jeff Hoogland:
"Is this really that important? If users want to do something as stupid as crank the volume past 100% to insane levels without listening as they go up, why do we care?"
I am pretty fine with this feature as my Lenovo E31-70 loudspeakers are not very efficient
Not sure what you mean by efficient, but if you can't control the volume properly for your machine, I think that it should be fixed at driver level. Are we sure this feature has not a tendency to break hardware?
Truthfully I am completely unsure and uncomfortable with this "feature". At some point I hope to backport the pulse mixer from e-22 which has some definite improvements plus a number of bug fixes. Among them is a much saner way of allowing max volume > 100%. This would probably be a rather tedious and time consuming endeavor as e22 now use elm stuff and Moksha or e17 doesn't fully support that.