Sound volume too low, software to increase it?
Hi all,
when running Sarge on my laptop, kernel 2.6.7-1-686 and alsa 1.0.5, I
had no problem with this. But now I'm running Ubuntu Hoary, which uses
2.6.10-1-386 and alsa 1.0.8, and sound volume is unusable low.
As you can see, all mixers are at 100% and unmuted:
$ amixer |grep Playback
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [on]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [on]
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono: Playback 31 [100%] [on]
Playback channels: Mono
Playback channels: Mono
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [on]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [on]
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Capture [off]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Capture [off]
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Capture [off]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [on] Capture [off]
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono: Playback 31 [100%] [on]
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono: Playback 31 [100%] [on]
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 15
Mono: Playback 15 [100%] [off]
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Alsa uses the maestro3 driver:
$ lsmod |grep snd
snd_maestro3 21796 2
snd_ac97_codec 64608 1 snd_maestro3
snd_pcm_oss 47652 1
snd_mixer_oss 16768 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 84872 3 snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 23300 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9604 1 snd_pcm
snd 50276 6
snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9824 3 snd
Is there anything I can do about it apart from restoring my sarge
backup? Is there a software to increase volume independently from other
applications?
Best regards,
Marius
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