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Re: The powerpc architecture ubiquitous problem: sound



On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 13:47 +0300, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
> 
> Now, the fun part; every sound begins loud (or should I say at a
> normal level) and then is almost imediately attenuated, resulting in
> annoyance and really low volume in general. With dmasound-pmac the
> volume used to be a lot louder and didn't had this kind of issues.

Sounds like DRC. Disable it or yank up its range with a mixer app.


> I have tried using the system without esd, but couldn't (some errors,
> sorry I have tried it some time ago, I could try again to get the
> exact error).

That would indeed be necessary to even try and diagnose that.


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