Sound is very soft

Joe Soap · 01-05-2008, 02:01 PM

G'day Folks,

I'm running Kanotix. I have an Asus A7V8X-X motherboard with onboard sound. After booting, I ran alsaconf as root and there was sound (and yea, the people did rejoice

). But the sound is soft. Very, very soft. I turned the volume on the speakers way up high to max. I opened kmix and uamix and did the same. The sound remained very soft.

Can anyone suggest a way to get it louder? What info can I post to help analyse the problem?

Thanks
Joe

jailbait · 01-05-2008, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe Soap

G'day Folks,

I'm running Kanotix. I have an Asus A7V8X-X motherboard with onboard sound. After booting, I ran alsaconf as root and there was sound (and yea, the people did rejoice

). But the sound is soft. Very, very soft. I turned the volume on the speakers way up high to max. I opened kmix and uamix and did the same. The sound remained very soft.

Can anyone suggest a way to get it louder?

You could buy powered speakers instead of relying only on the weak signal coming off the sound card.

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Steve Stites

mrrangerman · 01-05-2008, 08:41 PM

Check your volume in alsamixer, open a terminal and type alsamixer you don't need to be root. Make sure your main volume is turned up. It's been awhile ago (maybe 2+ yrs.) but I had the same problem and it had to do with KDE using arts and not alsa.

Joe Soap · 01-06-2008, 07:51 AM

I am using powered speakers.

Joe Soap · 01-06-2008, 02:14 PM

Thanks mrrangerman. The pc with the sound prob is switched off at the moment, but I'll try your advise when it's back up again.

phantom_cyph · 01-06-2008, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe Soap

I am using powered speakers.

Only difference that makes is that they need to be on :-D

If alsa mixer is the answer, you may want to install alsamixergui, it doesn't have to be in a terminal.

Joe Soap · 01-07-2008, 01:04 AM

Have checked alsamixer and the sound is turned way up. That does not appear to be the problem.

Any other suggestions?

Joe Soap · 01-09-2008, 12:59 AM

Changed soundcards, ran alsaconf.

Now everything works just fine