Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr> writes:
>>> 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 use "alsamixer" to turn off DRC. But each two reboots I need to
> turn it off again, because the system reboots with DRC on. Do you
> have the same problem?
Doing 'alsactl store' with DRC disabled should take care of this --
the alsa packages install hooks and whatnot so that 'alsactl restore'
is run at the appropriate times.