<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Hi Felipe,<br><br>I tried your pactl command. The result is the same than through pavucontrol graphical tool. There is another puzzling feature : the decibel measure is negative. Below my pavucontrol screen.<br>Thank you for your attention. Excuse my late answer, I was far from any computer this week.<br><br>Jean<br><br><br><img src="cid:e327c4b6e9531e48ed6e75fae7c7cc7d929705dc@zimbra"><br> <br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>De: </b>"Felipe Sateler" <fsateler@debian.org><br><b>À: </b>"JEBE" <jbernon@free.fr>, 766781@bugs.debian.org<br><b>Envoyé: </b>Lundi 27 Octobre 2014 13:51:57<br><b>Objet: </b>Re: Bug#766781: pavucontrol: Input volume cannot be more than 39%<br><br>Hi,<br><br>On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 3:13 PM, JEBE <jbernon@free.fr> wrote:<br>> Package: pavucontrol<br>> Version: 2.0-2<br>> Severity: normal<br>><br>> Dear Maintainer,<br>><br>> When using my laptop microphone (built-in or through a jack) the sound was very<br>> low.<br>><br>> I tried to tune it through pavucontrol and couldn't. I tried to fix it through<br>> alsamixer without success. At last there was no more sound. I purged and<br>> reinstalled pulseaudio, gnome and pavucontrol without more success.<br>><br>> I found that muting mic and mic boost through alsamixer brought back low input<br>> sound. I tried again to increase it through pavucontrol and found at last that<br>> it can be increased up to 39 %. Over 39 % there is no more input signal and no<br>> more capture.<br>><br>> 39 % is just enough for normal use. But it is misleading and could be better.<br>><br>> Thank you very much for your attention.<br>><br>> Note - In order to be complete, maybe the jack microphone is not detected. I am<br>> not sure, but I think it is not a linked issue and it is sure that increasing<br>> the pavucontrol input volume mute any microphone.<br>><br>> Gnome release : 1:3.8+8<br>> Pulseaudio : 5.0-13<br>> Pavucontrol : 2.0-2<br><br><br>Can you change the volume using pactl?<br><br>pactl set-source-volume <source> 50%<br><br>You can discover the source name with pactl list sources.<br><br><br>-- <br><br>Saludos,<br>Felipe Sateler<br></div><br></div></body></html>