Jonas Smedegaard wrote on 2/12/20 10:43 AM: > Quoting D. R. Evans (2020-02-12 18:34:27) >> I just installed buster on a new (to me) machine, and the audio level >> is very low. With all the mixer controls and the physical volume >> control on the speakers turned up, I can hear audio, but even then it >> is unpleasantly quiet, certainly nothing one would want to listen to. >> >> Any suggestions as to how to fix this, or even how to go about >> investigating it sensibly, would be gratefully received. > > Maybe you missed some mixer controls? Desktop environments nowadays > commonly use (not only ALSA but also) Pulseaudio, and a common mistake > is to only play with the knobs tied to ALSA. > > One relatively userfriendly interface to Pulseaudio that I know of is > pavucontrol, available in the Debian package of the same name. You can > run it as a self-contained graphical tool, or if you want it handy > accesible then additionally install pasystray. > OK; I installed that, but it doesn't seem to do anything more than the desktop mixer program. It says that Analog Stereo Output is 100%, as does the mixer program. Moving that slider does make the volume even lower, so it is having an effect, but only to make the audio even harder to hear. Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans
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