Make alsa louder?

Daedra · 12-30-2009, 11:16 PM

Does anyone know how to make alsa louder, more like windows if you know what I mean. I've maxed out all mixers and such but still its just not as loud as I think it could or should be.

Thanks.

mlangdn · 12-31-2009, 02:04 AM

Whatever app you are running generally has a volume control as well. I did the same as you and thought it could be louder. I found that in vlc and amarok, the volume level started at about 50%. A quick slide on the bar boosted sound tremendously.

ponce · 12-31-2009, 04:36 AM

I think it depends on the driver: alsa behave like this (softer at max volume) also for me on my realtek intel-hda on a toshiba laptop.
I guess that maybe some modprobe options for snd-hda-intel would help but I dunno which are.

dolphin77 · 12-31-2009, 06:30 AM

HDA-Intel is a very strange hardware. For different drivers you have to pass different options to the module. For example on Sony laptop I had to pass model=toshiba06 (or something like this do not remember exactly). And after that internal mic started to work and volume became reasonable.

For newer kernels - 2.6.32.1 - everything is detected automatically for my hardware, so I do not need to pass this options anymore. Look at Documentation in source tree of kernel.