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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: Negative volume steps?
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:25:39 +0200
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Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> 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?

No.

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

The maximum is higher than the minimum, so how would a step be negative?

What exactly is the problem with PulseAudio?


Regards,
Clemens