Volume problem with Nvidia integrated sound and snd_intel8x0 drivers.

[Gogeta_44]

I can't adjust the volume on my nvidia integrated sound card. I've unmuted everything in alsamixer, and no matter what I set the volume too, it's always at the loudest for the hardware unless I adjust it via speaker volume settings knob. I can get the volume to turn off completly if I mute (or set to 0) either the alsa or the oss-backwards compadiblity PCM. The alsa pcm has no slider, and can only be muted and I think that's the biggest sign of the problem, it won't load whatevers needed to adjust alsa PCM. I have alsa in my kernel and alsa-oss installed separatly. The sound card officaily uses the intel8x0 drivers.
Thanks,
Gogeta

[XiaoKJ]

try lowering the master AND the PCM in alsamixer

[Gogeta_44]

I've tried every combination or everything, I've tried muting other channels or useing them to adjust it. If I mute the PCM or set it to 0 on either the alsa (which doesn't even give me a slider) or oss mixer it turns sound off completly, thats the only thing that works. If it helps, this is my gentoo system with udev and alsa built into the kernel. OSS is loaded through the alsa-oss source and I also have alsa-utils installed. Strangly, with emerge I have different versions of alsa-utils and alsa-oss.

[XiaoKJ]

why wouldn't it slide? can you care to give details on the experience you have?

[Gogeta_44]

I've attached sceenshots of the slider in gnome-mixer and alsamixer. I adjusted the master volume in alsamixer for the 3rd screenshot to show that it doesn't effect the sound, thus explaining why master=100 in gnome-mixer but master=77 in alsamixer. Again, the only effect I can get on sound is to turn off the OSS or ALSA pcm, then it mutes totally.