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April 6th, 2008 04:00
Low sound volume in Ubuntu
Hello!
I just got an Inspiron 1525, and already installed ubuntu 7.10 (both normal and Dell's version), and 8.04 beta, and I can't seem to get all the sound volume I got from Windows vista. Is there a way to raise the volume? I already set all the switches in the audio manager to the maximum, but the sound is still very low. I have intel sound.
Thanks in advance!
Luis Jorge.
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PhillyFloyd
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April 28th, 2008 23:00
Run in a terminal window as user root:
alsamixer
and ensure all the channel outputs are maximum settings
luisjorge
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April 28th, 2008 23:00
Hi! Thanks for your reply, like I said, I already have all the channels set to maximum, so I don't really know if there's another way of solving this.
Thanks in advance!
Luis Jorge.
PhillyFloyd
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April 29th, 2008 10:00
Greetings
You said in the original post you set the values to maximum in the "sound audio manager" -- I wasn't sure what application you were referencing here, so I assumed you meant a frontend, like kmix or PulseAudio which don't immediately reference Alsa all-the-time ... granted PulseAudio does, but it helps to just check the TUI alsamixer as well - sorry about that assumption
Are you using KDE or GNOME?
Is the volume low for all applications, or just non-system sounds?
post /etc/alsa/asound.state along with cat /proc/asound/cards; lsmod | grep snd; and the output from lspci | grep -i audio
Lot of sound issues on this forum ;-) [FYI I use Fedora/RHEL/CentOS branded OS so I apologize if some commands are not applicable on Ubuntu]
lullabong
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May 8th, 2008 09:00
Hi,
I had the exact same problem. Also, in that laptop model, I don't know if you have noticed but you can't get volume in both exits for the headphones, you can solve that also this way. There are two possible solutions:
1. In the terminal, as root, increase the volume
sudo alsamixer
2. If you prefer a GUI, install GNOME Alsa Mixer (you can install it from the package manager)
increase all the values, and activate "headphone as line out"
Hope it helps,
Lu