On my system amixer(1) and alsamixer(1) don't not report the same volume level for the Master channel. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open alsamixer 2. Reset the volume to 100% using 'amixer set Master 100%' 3. Decrease the volume level using 'amixer set Master 50%-' 4. Get the volume level using: 'amixer get Master' Actual Results: amixer reports the more or less correct volume level (circa 49% in this case) and alsamixer reports a volume level of 22% (which doesn't make any sense to me). Expected Results: Both amixer and alsamixer should report a volume level of circa 50% for the Master channel. Portage 2.2.14 (python 3.4.1-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.17.8-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.17.8-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-3317U_CPU_@_1.70GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 3871300 total, 1386484 free KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free Timestamp of tree: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 00:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p53 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/perl: 5.18.2-r2 dev-lang/python: 2.7.9-r1, 3.4.1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.13.9 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r1, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.4 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.16 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.19-r1 Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 ABI="amd64" ABI_X86="64" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE" ACCEPT_PROPERTIES="*" ACCEPT_RESTRICT="*" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ANSIBLE_TRANSPORT="ssh" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ARCH="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" BOOTSTRAP_USE="cxx unicode internal-glib python_targets_python3_3 python_targets_python2_7 multilib multilib" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CFLAGS_amd64="-m64" CFLAGS_x32="-mx32" CFLAGS_x86="-m32" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CHOST_amd64="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CHOST_x32="x86_64-pc-linux-gnux32" CHOST_x86="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLEAN_DELAY="5" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" COLLISION_IGNORE="/lib/modules/* *.py[co] *$py.class */dropin.cache" COLORTERM="rxvt" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DEFAULT_ABI="amd64" DISPLAY=":0" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EDITOR="/usr/bin/vi" ELIBC="glibc" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask-enter-invalid --jobs=2 --verbose" EMERGE_WARNING_DELAY="10" EPREFIX="" EROOT="/" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs cgroup config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news noinfo parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync webrsync-gpg" FETCHCOMMAND="wget -t 3 -T 60 --passive-ftp -O "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}"" FETCHCOMMAND_RSYNC="rsync -avP "${URI}" "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}"" FETCHCOMMAND_SFTP="bash -c "x=\${2#sftp://} ; host=\${x%%/*} ; port=\${host##*:} ; host=\${host%:*} ; [[ \${host} = \${port} ]] && port=22 ; eval \"declare -a ssh_opts=(\${3})\" ; exec sftp -P \${port} \"\${ssh_opts[@]}\" \"\${host}:/\${x#*/}\" \"\$1\"" sftp "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}" "${PORTAGE_SSH_OPTS}"" FETCHCOMMAND_SSH="bash -c "x=\${2#ssh://} ; host=\${x%%/*} ; port=\${host##*:} ; host=\${host%:*} ; [[ \${host} = \${port} ]] && port=22 ; exec rsync --rsh=\"ssh -p\${port} \${3}\" -avP \"\${host}:/\${x#*/}\" \"\$1\"" rsync "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}" "${PORTAGE_SSH_OPTS}"" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FFTOOLS="" GCC_SPECS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://de-mirror.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="" HOME="/root" INFOPATH="/usr/share/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.3/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.24/info" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" IUSE_IMPLICIT="abi_x86_64 prefix prefix-guest" KERNEL="linux" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz 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MAIL="/var/mail/root" MAKEOPTS="-j5" MANPATH="/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.3/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.24/man:/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/man/" MULTILIB_ABIS="amd64" MULTILIB_STRICT_DENY="64-bit.*shared object" MULTILIB_STRICT_DIRS="/lib32 /lib /usr/lib32 /usr/lib /usr/kde/*/lib32 /usr/kde/*/lib /usr/qt/*/lib32 /usr/qt/*/lib /usr/X11R6/lib32 /usr/X11R6/lib" MULTILIB_STRICT_EXEMPT="(perl5|gcc|gcc-lib|binutils|eclipse-3|debug|portage|udev|systemd|clang|python-exec)" MULTIOSDIRS="../lib64" NETBEANS="apisupport cnd groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler soa visualweb webcommon websvccommon xml" NOCOLOR="true" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" OPENGL_PROFILE="xorg-x11" PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/bin" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_ARCHLIST="ia64 mips m68k ppc-aix x86-openbsd x86-cygwin arm64 ia64-linux hppa-hpux x86-winnt x64-openbsd amd64 sparc64-solaris sparc-solaris x64-macos x86-fbsd ppc x64-solaris arm x86-freebsd x64-freebsd sh ppc-macos sparc64-freebsd x86-solaris ppc-openbsd amd64-fbsd s390 ppc64-linux x86-linux x86-netbsd hppa x86-interix x86 alpha x86-macos arm-linux ia64-hpux sparc-fbsd m68k-mint amd64-linux ppc64 sparc" PORTAGE_BIN_PATH="/usr/lib/portage/python3.4" PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES="css gif htm[l]? jp[e]?g js pdf png" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_DEBUG="0" PORTAGE_DEPCACHEDIR="/var/cache/edb/dep" PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log warn error" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage@localhost" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="[portage] ebuild log for ${PACKAGE} on ${HOST}" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="root" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save_summary:log,warn,error,qa echo" PORTAGE_FETCH_CHECKSUM_TRY_MIRRORS="5" PORTAGE_FETCH_RESUME_MIN_SIZE="350K" PORTAGE_GID="250" PORTAGE_GPG_DIR="/etc/portage/gpg" PORTAGE_GPG_SIGNING_COMMAND="gpg --sign --digest-algo SHA256 --clearsign --yes --default-key "${PORTAGE_GPG_KEY}" --homedir "${PORTAGE_GPG_DIR}" "${FILE}"" PORTAGE_INST_GID="0" PORTAGE_INST_UID="0" PORTAGE_INTERNAL_CALLER="1" PORTAGE_NICENESS="5" PORTAGE_OVERRIDE_EPREFIX="" PORTAGE_PYM_PATH="/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages" PORTAGE_PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages" PORTAGE_REPOSITORIES="[DEFAULT] main-repo = gentoo [gentoo] location = /usr/portage masters = priority = -1000 sync-type = rsync sync-uri = rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage " PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES="-1" PORTAGE_SYNC_STALE="30" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTAGE_VERBOSE="1" PORTAGE_WORKDIR_MODE="0700" PORTAGE_XATTR_EXCLUDE="security.* system.nfs4_acl" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" PORT_LOGDIR_CLEAN="find "${PORT_LOGDIR}" -type f ! -name 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authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" 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Created attachment 395906 [details] Screenshot showing the problem
(In reply to Sören from comment #1) > Created attachment 395906 [details] > Scrennshot showing the problem Which device is alsamixer using at that point?
(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #2) > (In reply to Sören from comment #1) > > Created attachment 395906 [details] > > Scrennshot showing the problem > > Which device is alsamixer using at that point? alsamixer (amixer as well btw) is using the default one (HDA Intel PCH).
This version is long-gone, please reopen if this is still a problem
