The volume of audio is too low

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:39 PM, fred smith
<fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:13:48PM -0500, David wrote:
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> > Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 30 December 2008 17:33, Paul Smith wrote:
> > >> Dear All,
> > >>
> > >> After some updates, the volume of audio became too low. Any ideas? I
> > >> am using F10.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks in advance,
> > >>
> > >> Paul
> > >
> > > Hi Paul.
> > >
> > > As usual I suspect Pulseaudio as the culprit, as it can be responsible
> for low
> > > volume levels.
> > >
> > > First though, open alsamixer as user in a terminal, as below.
> > >
> > > alsamixer -D hw:0
> > >
> > > Assuming that your card is card0, this should show all sliders for your
> > > soundcard. Check for ones like, Master, PCM, Front, CD, which should be
> up.
> > >
> > > If all's ok in alsamixer, try disabling Pulseaudio (unless you
> particularly
> > > want it), by removing the package, alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, then
> reboot, and
> > > see if the sound levels are any better.
> > >
> > > All the best.
> >
> >
> > To the developers and those in charge of producing Fedora. *Please* when
> > you release Fedora 11 set all of the volume levels to maximum and play
> > really *loud* sounds that are recorded at really *loud* levels so that
> > the Fedora users can stop beating up on Pulseaudio that is default set
> > to not blast the cones off of their computer speakers.  ;-)
> >
> > Then we call all read about the sounds being too load. <even bigger> ;-)
> > - --
>
> Well I've found at least THREE different volume controls on my F10
> installation, ALL of which need to be cranked up to get a decent volume.
>
> First of all, there's the one on the top panel. Then there's the
> Pulse audio mixer. Then there's another one buried in some other menu
> (don't remember which one--the f10 machine isn't up at the moment. I
> always have to dig around for it, then crank it all the way up so I can
> even hear the test sounds (or any other sounds).
>
>
You just need one mixer. I use gnome-alsamixer. It is graphical, and very
simple to use.

http://atrpms.net/dist/f10/gnome-alsamixer/

Give it a try. I am pretty sure it will be adequate for your needs.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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