Re: Low Sound Volume

[Pat Mahoney <patmahoney@gmx.net>]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:50:18AM -0800, Jatin Golani wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> Need some help....I have an Opti sound card...detected
> under Windows as that and it works fine in
> Windows....under Debian i've installed MAD16 as the
> driver....lsmod shows MAD16, UART401, ad1848, sound,
> soundcore, soundlow....when I use play to play a wav
> file...I can hear the sound only if I turn up the
> volume right to full (it works fine in Windows)....and
> if I use the -v option of play with values even as
> high as 1000 or 10000 the volume increases just a
> little but there's a lot of noise....even if I'm not
> trying to play wav files with play i have similar
> results.
> 

Have you tried starting a mixer (cam, xmixer, gmix) and turning the
voulume up?

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