Re: Raising volume past 100%

[David Griffith <dave@661.org>]

On Sun, 21 Aug 2022, Curt wrote:
> On 2022-08-18, David Griffith <dave@661.org> wrote:
> > What I seek is 1) the ability to hover the mouse pointer over the volume
> > applet and raise the volume past 100% using the mouse wheel and 2) the
> > ability to click on the volume applet and use the slider that appears to
> > raise the volume past 100%.  I already know how to bring up a dialog to do
> > this.  I was able to do #1 before an untimely wipe and reinstall and am
> > having trouble figuring out just what I did.
>
> A pulse audio applet called 'pasystray' can seemingly reach astronomical
> heights:
>
> However, pasystray lets you go up "forever". At least I never hit a
> ceiling. The only thing is that it doesn't exactly have a volume
> control slider. You go to the applet and use the mouse scroll wheel to
> go up/down.
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/287cu3/raise_max_volume_above_150/

I'm pretty sure that was it!  Thanks!  My fiddling around with ~/.asoundrc 
was a red herring.

Now I feel a compulsion to figure out if Alsa can be made to do what this 
thing does.  Unlike what I've been trying with Alsa, this doesn't result 
in any distortion until you start up into the range where the physical 
amplifier starts clipping.  But at least on my machinery, that's far 
higher than where I want the volume

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