[ltp] How to get volume hotkeys working again on W500?

[Marc MERLIN]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 12:55:52AM +0000, Robert Tomsick wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 14:42 -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > Does someone have a recommended way to boost sound by resampling the output
> > past whatever volume 100% on alsamixer would give you?
> 
> I know VLC can do this, and I suspect there's probably some other
> software with similar capabilities.

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 04:27:30AM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> Pulseaudio can do that.  If you launch the sound settings dialog, the
> volume slider goes to maybe 150% (while volume control keys/the dropdown
> slider from the applet only go to 100%).
> 
> Some applications such as VLC or mplayer can do that too (VLC out of the
> box, mplayer if you enable -softvol and set -softvol-max to something
> higer than 100).

Thanks both for the tips.

Marc
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