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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