Volume control should never be able to go above 100%

[captain.magnus]

Running PA 0.9.14 on openSUSE, I am able to set the volume up to 480% via Devices -> Sinks -> alsa_output -> Properties

See the following screenshots; http://coolice.org/volume-control-100.png http://coolice.org/volume-control-480.png

Note, setting it higher than 100% will produce useless noise

mboman@mblxsrv01:~/Desktop> /sbin/lspci |grep -i audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)

mboman@mblxsrv01:~/Desktop> lsmod | grep snd_ snd_pcm_oss 48896 0 snd_mixer_oss 16808 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq 61968 0 snd_seq_device 8604 1 snd_seq snd_hda_intel 545508 4 snd_pcm 95440 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel snd_timer 26664 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 9816 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd_hwdep 9072 1 snd_hda_intel snd 74632 15 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep

[lennart]

PA supports digital amplification just fine. Versions <= 0.9.14 did not apply clipping hence the result might be heavily distorted. However it is an intended feature to allow digital amplification and hence limiting the volume range is not a good idea.

Also, you should not use paman anyway. It's out of date and not really maintained.