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Re: Boost sound volume?



On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:06:19 +0200
Tomas Kral <thomas.kral@email.cz> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 16:07 +0200, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:01:46 -0400
> > Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> wrote:
> > > No, it's a well-known problem with PulseAudio. It gives max
> > > volumes much, much lower than Windows for no special reason I
> > > know of.
> > 
> > Is it possible for me to just kill the PulseAudio server when I'm
> > starting certain applications, or force them to use ALSA?
> > 
> > > Robert: if you're using Gnome, run gnome-volume-control. You can
> > > use the slider at the top to set volume to "more than 100%".
> > > (Yes, I know that's stupid.) Unfortunately the system will forget
> > > this setting if you ever lower the volume.
> > 
> > Right now, I'm running LXDE, but I do have gnome-alsamixer
> > installed, and all of those are at max.  Considering this is little
> > more than a graphical frontend for the command line alsamixer, I'm
> > thinking you mean the applet.  But the package gnome-applets pulls
> > in 357 MB of dependencies.  Is there a simple way to do the same
> > from the command line?  I have plenty of hard disk space - it just
> > seems like a huge waste.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > --
> > rbmj
> > 
> 
> Have you tried alsa-utils package?
> It provides these commands:
> /usr/bin/aplay
> /usr/bin/amixer
> /usr/bin/arecordmidi
> /usr/bin/aseqnet
> /usr/bin/alsamixer
> /usr/bin/aconnect
> /usr/bin/speaker-test
> /usr/bin/iecset
> /usr/bin/amidi
> /usr/bin/aplaymidi
> /usr/bin/aseqdump
> 
> To set volume you may type e.g.
> amixer sset Master 80%
> amixer sset PCM 100%
> 

I already have used alsamixer to set literally everything to 100%:

$ amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 87
  Mono: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 87
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 87
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 3 [100%] [36.00dB]
  Front Right: 3 [100%] [36.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch penum
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 31
  Front Left: Capture 31 [100%] [30.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 31 [100%] [30.00dB] [on]

--
rbmj


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