Raising volume past 100%
There is the continuing problem of built-in speakers on laptops being too
quiet when running Linux. I managed to fix this with something in
/etc/asound.conf and an extra mate-volume-control applet added to the
panel. With this extra volume control, I was able to turn the audio far
past 100% and even past 153%. The laptop I'm working on needed to be
wiped and the OS reinstalled. Unfortunately I neglected to save or write
down what I did to implement this volume control tweak.
Before I discovered this, I used /etc/asound.conf (or ~/.asoundrc) to add
a "Pre-Amp" slider to Alsa. This raises up the low end such that the
really quiet audio stuff is loud enough. I'm not sure if that had
anything to do with the volume control tweak.
Would someone please help me with figuring out what I could have possibly
done to make MATE's audio control applet to go as far past 100% as I cared
to raise it?
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David Griffith
dave@661.org
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