On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:26:08PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 08:10:51PM +0200, Martin Toft wrote:
> > FWIW, I used another computer, audacity and a piece of male-male
> > mini-jack cable to "optimize" the volumes on my ThinkPad T41 :-)  It
> > sounds silly, but it worked quite well.  It may not help you much,
> > though, if you can't turn up your volumes any further.
> > 
> > My audio card:
> > 
> > auich0 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 "Intel 82801DB AC97" rev 0x01: irq 11, ICH4 AC97
> > 
> > The resulting volumes:
> > 
> > outputs.master=255,255
> > inputs.dac=159,159
> 
> is that really the highest setting auich will allow for inputs.dac?

Yes. If I increase inputs.dac beyond this point, the music output gets
more and more distorted (confirmed by looking at the outputted sound
waves).  Above approx 175 the distortion becomes clear (at least in my
ears and with my particular equipment).

Martin