Hey,

I'm having problems with my sound in FC6. I can turn up my speakers really loud, but it only outputs at a very low volume. I've researched this problem and can't find anything that is the same as my problem with a fix. Any help is much appreciated. To my knowledge, the master and pcm levels are good. Take a look.

Here is what alsamixer has to say:

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/2...samixerho4.jpg


Here is what kmix has to say:

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/9943/kmixcd2.jpg

Here is what lsmod says:

Module Size Used by
autofs4 24261 2
hidp 23617 0
rfcomm 43865 0
l2cap 30657 4 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth 57893 5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 153469 1
nf_conntrack_netbios_ns 7105 0
ipt_REJECT 8641 1
nf_conntrack_ipv4 21709 2
xt_state 6593 2
nf_conntrack 62409 3 nf_conntrack_netbios_ns,nf_conntrack_ipv4,xt_state
nfnetlink 10841 2 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack
iptable_filter 7105 1
ip_tables 16389 1 iptable_filter
ip6t_REJECT 9537 1
xt_tcpudp 7233 9
ip6table_filter 6848 1
ip6_tables 17541 1 ip6table_filter
x_tables 18757 6 ipt_REJECT,xt_state,ip_tables,ip6t_REJECT,xt_tcpudp,ip6_tables
vfat 16193 1
fat 53469 1 vfat
dm_mirror 25301 0
dm_multipath 21833 0
dm_mod 58509 2 dm_mirror,dm_multipath
video 19909 0
sbs 19073 0
i2c_ec 9025 1 sbs
dock 13977 0
button 11857 0
battery 13893 0
asus_acpi 20445 0
backlight 10177 1 asus_acpi
ac 9157 0
radeon 116065 2
drm 78421 3 radeon
ipv6 275585 17 ip6t_REJECT
parport_pc 30053 1
lp 16265 0
parport 38537 2 parport_pc,lp
snd_intel8x0 35676 2
sg 37213 0
snd_ac97_codec 93413 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 6465 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy 7877 0
snd_seq_oss 33601 0
snd_seq_midi_event 11201 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 51249 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 11853 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 43617 0
snd_mixer_oss 19393 1 snd_pcm_oss
floppy 58789 0
snd_pcm 75205 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25157 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 53829 11 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd _timer
soundcore 11681 1 snd
pcspkr 7233 0
snd_page_alloc 13769 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
i2c_nforce2 9793 0
i2c_core 24897 2 i2c_ec,i2c_nforce2
3c59x 45929 0
serio_raw 10821 0
ohci1394 37488 0
ieee1394 294681 1 ohci1394
mii 9409 1 3c59x
ide_cd 40673 1
cdrom 37345 1 ide_cd
usb_storage 69121 0
sata_nv 22469 0
libata 104661 1 sata_nv
sd_mod 24129 0
scsi_mod 138093 4 sg,usb_storage,libata,sd_mod
ext3 126025 1
jbd 60777 1 ext3
ehci_hcd 34125 0
ohci_hcd 23493 0
uhci_hcd 26705 0

Finally, here is what modprobe says, not all of it, but the soundcard portion:

alias char-major-116-* snd
alias sound-service-*-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-*-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-*-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-*-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-*-12 snd-pcm-oss

install sound-slot-* /sbin/modprobe snd-card-${MODPROBE_MODULE##sound[_-]slot[_-]}

install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-device && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-oss

I'm not the most knowledgeable person, but everything appears to be in order here except for the modprobe portion.

Regards,

Brandon

Couple places you can look

1. you'll find that if your PC is reasonably it may be 5.1 channel
if you don't use the Green (front Stereo) the other outputs will be very low volume

2. Xine/Gstreamer (used by Audio Video programs) can control volume independant from ALSAmixer. (turn the volume up in all Xine/Gstreamer Programs)

3. in ALSAmixe My sound card doesnt just have PCM & Master there are Headphones , PCM front / rear , Analogue Front / Rear. Try being indiscriminate turn every single bar in alsamixer all the way up.


4. Completely redo the the soundcard using alsaconf as root.

Carl,

I did try playing music in atun, and a mystery .wav player (I couldn't find a name for it). I fooled around with the volume in both, and it was the same result. As far as kmix and alsamixer go, I tried 101 different combinations of volume levels and nothing changed. I'll reconfigure the sound card with alsaconf sometime today.

Thanks for your help,

Brandon

Hey,

I couldn't find anything on my system about an alsaconf command. The closest thing I found was /usr/sbin/alsa.conf. That text file contained NOTHING about my nvidia sound card. The only viable command I found was alsactl, but after reading the man, that would appear to do nothing for me as I have no basis for correct settings. I vould be wrong, have been before. Is it possible I should try and look for nvidia sound card drivers for Linux? Please advise further.

Thanks,

Brandon

This happened to me a couple of years ago when I got new motherboard because my new integrated sound card didn't have amplified output and my speakers didn't amplify the sound so I was stuck with low volume and had to buy new speakers. Make sure you don't have a similar problem before messing with drivers and software.

Hi,

Find alsa utilities and install the package. I am running slackware and I found the package at http://www.linuxpackages.net/.After that run alsamixer as a root. The rest is simple. I just tried it and it works great.

Good luck.