i am running fedora i think 10? latest stable release.My sound is barely audible and it wont send sound to my headphone jacks.

Yes i have checked my volume is set to max on both the audio mixer and the volume control on the front of my Toshiba satellite a135 laptop.

type in terminal alsamixer and rise the level on sound.use the"M" key to unlock the locked option if you need .

ok thanks that worked however when i restart my computer i have do that again is there a way to have it stay that way?

# alsactl store 0

# alsactl restore 0
(if it doesn't for some reason)

There's several mixer applications and your distro might not default to alsa if another is present with saved values. Like aumix. AFAIK, the results are saved to /etc/asound.state. So if you want it to default to another mixer, you might just have to delete that file. Or however your distro / your system is setup.

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ok thanks to you both. Now my other issue with the sound not being switch to the headphones does anybody have any ideas?

define switch.

Some devices are wired that when you plug in the headphones, the speakers no longer output sound. Some are not and each is their own thing and otherwise always on at whatever levels you've set. So what behavior, or lack there of are you expecting. And what specific hardware is in question(soundcard).

ok i unnderstand what you are saying however im unsure how to awnser it i now have sound that is audible and im happy with it however when i plug in my headphones into the jack (laptop) it iget no sound from them it stil sends it to the speakers

see if alsa it's your audio controller .try to play whit the rest of the option.if you dont have luck ,try to update alsa(see on forum how).

$ alsamixer -c 0

Some laptops have an extra headphone only channel. Dells are known for this. And this mixer setting may only be available in alsamixer. F1 for help, but mostly cursor keys, "M" for mute/unmute, and ESC to exit.

$ cat /proc/asound/cards

$ amixer

Those should give you/us more detail on what / where / when / who done it. Either pipe it to a file " > file.txt" or " 2>&1 file.txt" or use tee to read and pipe " | tee file.txt". Or just read it as is. Shift+PgUp scrolls up in a term / console / cli / jargon of the week.

ok i used those tocommands and this is what i recieved for output I am to much of a newbie to us much of this information
o and it a Toshiba satellite a135

[nemesis@nemesis-laptop ~]$ alsamoxer -c0
bash: alsamoxer: command not found
[nemesis@nemesis-laptop ~]$ alsamixer -c0
[nemesis@nemesis-laptop ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xdc440000 irq 22
[nemesis@nemesis-laptop ~]$ amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
Front Left: Capture 65536 [100%] [on]
Front Right: Capture 65536 [100%] [on]
[nemesis@nemesis-laptop ~]$

That could be a problem. It appears that you don' have a portion of alsa installed. Or access to that portion. Is the user in the sound group? Did you install alsa-utils and/or alsa-tools? Your distro might have put them in separate packages.

That's a common card. Although drivers for it are still a bit beta IMO. Or at least was a year or more back. I've got a different card so I haven't really used that one much. In either case, you appear to not have everything that you need installed on your system.