volume fluctuating

steveybob · 11-12-2006, 07:30 AM

Hello

Hopefully you can help me - my 3-4 year old pc has started to fluctuate in its volume - no matter what i am listening to. It fades out and in when it wants and this happens from my speakers and when using my wireless headphones (which plug into the speakers). I have creative inspire 6.1 speakers

I have a sound blaster audigy 2 Zs (9400) card and updated the drivers last week, it has just started fluctuating again.

thanks for any help or advice in advance

steve

Manoj S Raman · 12-24-2008, 12:41 PM

The only solution I have heard of till now is to change the volume control!

TodoInTX · 03-31-2009, 08:12 AM

Using Ubuntu 8.10 I am experiencing this same problem with volume fluctuation.

I'm using the on-board Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (re

Video playback through mplayer seems to be unaffected by this problem. For me this issue is most apparent while playing mp3s. I've found that if you lower the Master and PCM outputs to 50% in the mixer then raise the speaker volume to compensate the problem is avoided. It seems like the ALSA driver is trying to implement some sort of volume normalization scheme to avoid blowing out your speakers but is getting it terribly wrong.

11-12-2006, 07:30 AM	#1 (permalink)
steveybob Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: kent UK Posts: 157 OS: xp	volume fluctuating Hello Hopefully you can help me - my 3-4 year old pc has started to fluctuate in its volume - no matter what i am listening to. It fades out and in when it wants and this happens from my speakers and when using my wireless headphones (which plug into the speakers). I have creative inspire 6.1 speakers I have a sound blaster audigy 2 Zs (9400) card and updated the drivers last week, it has just started fluctuating again. thanks for any help or advice in advance steve

12-24-2008, 12:41 PM	#2 (permalink)
Manoj S Raman Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1 OS: Windows XP and Linux Ubuntu	Re: volume fluctuating The only solution I have heard of till now is to change the volume control!

03-31-2009, 08:12 AM	#3 (permalink)
TodoInTX Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1 OS: Ubuntu 8.10	Re: volume fluctuating Using Ubuntu 8.10 I am experiencing this same problem with volume fluctuation. I'm using the on-board Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (re Video playback through mplayer seems to be unaffected by this problem. For me this issue is most apparent while playing mp3s. I've found that if you lower the Master and PCM outputs to 50% in the mixer then raise the speaker volume to compensate the problem is avoided. It seems like the ALSA driver is trying to implement some sort of volume normalization scheme to avoid blowing out your speakers but is getting it terribly wrong.