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From: Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk@iki.fi>
Subject: Negative volume steps?
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:06:43 +0300
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Hi,

If a driver claims that the lowest volume step (integer step, not dB) of
a volume element is -126 and the highest step is 0, is the driver
broken?

I'm asking, because apparently there are such drivers, but Pulseaudio
currently assumes that the volume steps are never negative.

-- 
Tanu