On Aug 18, 2014 8:24 AM, "drago01" <drago01 gmail com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Gabriel Rossetti
> <rossetti gabriel gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > On Aug 17, 2014 11:58 PM, "Michael Catanzaro" <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 14:04 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Ubuntu's Unity now allow having the volume slider on the desktop go all
> >> > the way up to above 100% without having to go into the sound settings.
> >> > It would really like to see an option like that in Gnome-Shell as well.
> >> > Since 100% is only 2/3 up what is possibly to set I often have to go
> >> > into sound setting to get it loud enough my laptops and a couple of
> >> > desktop systems as well.
> >>
> >> This is a UI failure. It doesn't make sense to set sound over 100%. It
> >> sounds like GNOME Shell is wrong to cap the sound level lower than it
> >> can actually go, but Settings is also wrong for presenting the max sound
> >> level as less than 100%.
> >>
> >> I neither know nor care about whatever technical reason exists for 100%
> >> not being the end of that slider in sound settings. It just doesn't make
> >> sense.
> >>
> >> Michael
> >>
> >
> > Before Gnome Shell, with the old Gnome, the sound went to 100% visually but
> > in reality it went higher. When I installed Gnome Shell the sound at 100%
> > was much lower than it was before and the only way to make it higher was to
> > go to the sound settings and put it above 100%.
> >
> > I think this was done for sound quality, but unless I jack it up all the way
> > up to max the sound is fine.
>
> We tried that ... we let it go up to 150%
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641886 .. it caused some
> problems though see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649411
> and then we reverted the change again
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657607
Thanks for the info, but the problems listen in the bug report seem related to synchronizing issues between the different ways of setting the volume.
On some machines it may distort quickly above 100% but not on others; on those where it doesn't the issue is that at 100% the audio is really low, I cannot watch a movie on it when there is slight background noise unless I have headphones on, I hook up an amp, or I force the volume above 100%.
How did you manage this before gnome shell? It worked fine before. Could we not run some sort of test program to detect distortion (automatically or via user input) and set this as 100%?
Excuse me if I may, but the "fix" is a workaround, a bit like Macbooks overheating when you close the lid so the forced the laptop to go to sleep so it cannot overheat. The reality is not all machines behave the same.
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