Dear All,
After some updates, the volume of audio became too low. Any ideas? I am using F10.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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.
Nigel.
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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> ;-) - --
David
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).
There may be others I haven't found. :)
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:39 PM, fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.uswrote:
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.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Nigel Henry cave.dnb2m97pp@aliceadsl.fr wrote:
After some updates, the volume of audio became too low. Any ideas? I am using F10.
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.
Thanks, Nigel and David. After having played a bit with alsamixer, I got the audio back to its usual volume. I do not know how was it changed without my intervention...
Paul
Paul Smith wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Nigel Henry cave.dnb2m97pp@aliceadsl.fr wrote:
After some updates, the volume of audio became too low. Any ideas? I am using F10.
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.
Thanks, Nigel and David. After having played a bit with alsamixer, I got the audio back to its usual volume. I do not know how was it changed without my intervention...
Paul,
I don't know just why volume levels change. And I am sorry for my sarcastic post. Well. A little. ;-)
Pulseaudio, a utility used to set different audio levels for different sources, works. For me.
To 'remove' Pulseaudio from your Linux install because you are having a minor problem with it is self-defeating. I mean Linux is supposed to be better than Microsoft Windows right?
Good that you solved your problem.
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 20:18, Paul Smith wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Nigel Henry
cave.dnb2m97pp@aliceadsl.fr wrote:
After some updates, the volume of audio became too low. Any ideas? I am using F10.
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.
Thanks, Nigel and David. After having played a bit with alsamixer, I got the audio back to its usual volume. I do not know how was it changed without my intervention...
Paul
Audio on Linux can be a bit like playing with the dark arts at times. Muttering various incantions, while slaughtering a chicken, and fiddling with the alsamixer controls, all at the same time.
Nice to see you've got the sounds back to how they were before the updates though.
If you want to check on what the last updates were, run the command below as user. (scroll to the top of the list for the latest updates) rpm -q -a --last
Perhaps I've just got it in for pulseaudio, but I'd guess there are pulseaudio updates showing there. I don't have an F10 install yet, so can't verify that.
All the best.
Nigel.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Nigel Henry cave.dnb2m97pp@aliceadsl.frwrote:
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 20:18, Paul Smith wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Nigel Henry
cave.dnb2m97pp@aliceadsl.fr wrote:
After some updates, the volume of audio became too low. Any ideas? I am using F10.
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.
Thanks, Nigel and David. After having played a bit with alsamixer, I got the audio back to its usual volume. I do not know how was it changed without my intervention...
Paul
Audio on Linux can be a bit like playing with the dark arts at times. Muttering various incantions, while slaughtering a chicken, and fiddling with the alsamixer controls, all at the same time.
Nice to see you've got the sounds back to how they were before the updates though.
If you want to check on what the last updates were, run the command below as user. (scroll to the top of the list for the latest updates) rpm -q -a --last
Perhaps I've just got it in for pulseaudio, but I'd guess there are pulseaudio updates showing there. I don't have an F10 install yet, so can't verify that.
All the best.
Sorry, but you guessed wrongly. The new kernel comes with a new alsa-driver (1.0.18a).
Every time alsa-driver changes my volumes also go down. This has nothing to do with pulseaudio.
People need to understand that alsa is very complicate. It needs to deal with hundreds of different hardwares. Sometimes, they change some defaults and break something for someone.
C'est la vie. With or without pulseaudio, alsa continues to be complicated and having a lot of problems. If you are lucky to be in the set of users well supported, good. Otherwise, the road to the fixes is very long ...
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