Hello,
After a fresh install of Fedora 20, 32bit, and adding enough packages to watch YouTube videos, I have sound (for both the YouTube videos and for Clanbomber), but the volume is way too low, almost inaudible.
I have a volume setting widget on the lower panel and I set volume to maximum. I also set the volume to maximum in alsamixer and pavucontrol, even after setting VolumeOverdrive to true in kmixrc. I have kmix running. I removed and installed back pulseaudio to see if it makes a difference, and it seems it does not. When I start kmixctrl in a terminal, it finishes without anything happening.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Best, Oliver
On 06/02/2014 09:23 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
Hello,After a fresh install of Fedora 20, 32bit, and adding enough packages to watch YouTube videos, I have sound (for both the YouTube videos and for Clanbomber), but the volume is way too low, almost inaudible.
I have a volume setting widget on the lower panel and I set volume to maximum. I also set the volume to maximum in alsamixer and pavucontrol, even after setting VolumeOverdrive to true in kmixrc. I have kmix running. I removed and installed back pulseaudio to see if it makes a difference, and it seems it does not. When I start kmixctrl in a terminal, it finishes without anything happening.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Best, Oliver
I've been running 64 bit F20 LXDE for some time now, and I had been having tons of hiccups with my sound. I resolved the latest by removing the "pulseaudio" and "alsa-plugins-pulseaudio" packages, and, as someone else suggested, running "sudo alsactl init". The person who suggested that explained that it's often required to be run periodically.
About three days ago, I noticed that my sound was suddenly very low and faint, but I was on my way out of town when I noticed, so I didn't manage to troubleshoot at all, but now that I'm back, I tried that alsactl command again, and it fixed the issue entirely.
To recap, my suggestion to you is:
sudo yum remove pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio sudo alsactl init
..and, if that doesn't work, maybe try rebooting and testing again after that.
Good luck.
Hello,
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Someone someone249@openmailbox.org wrote:
On 06/02/2014 09:23 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
Hello,After a fresh install of Fedora 20, 32bit, and adding enough packages
to
watch YouTube videos, I have sound (for both the YouTube videos and for Clanbomber), but the volume is way too low, almost inaudible.
I have a volume setting widget on the lower panel and I set volume to maximum. I also set the volume to maximum in alsamixer and pavucontrol, even after setting VolumeOverdrive to true in kmixrc. I have kmix
running.
I removed and installed back pulseaudio to see if it makes a difference, and it seems it does not. When I start kmixctrl in a terminal, it
finishes
without anything happening.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Best, OliverI've been running 64 bit F20 LXDE for some time now, and I had been having tons of hiccups with my sound. I resolved the latest by removing the "pulseaudio" and "alsa-plugins-pulseaudio" packages, and, as someone else suggested, running "sudo alsactl init". The person who suggested that explained that it's often required to be run periodically.
About three days ago, I noticed that my sound was suddenly very low and faint, but I was on my way out of town when I noticed, so I didn't manage to troubleshoot at all, but now that I'm back, I tried that alsactl command again, and it fixed the issue entirely.
To recap, my suggestion to you is:
sudo yum remove pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio sudo alsactl init..and, if that doesn't work, maybe try rebooting and testing again after that.
Thanks for the suggestion, but it made no change.
Best, Oliver
Good luck.
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On 2 June 2014 02:23, Oliver Ruebenacker curoli@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,After a fresh install of Fedora 20, 32bit, and adding enough packages to watch YouTube videos, I have sound (for both the YouTube videos and for Clanbomber), but the volume is way too low, almost inaudible.
I have a volume setting widget on the lower panel and I set volume to maximum. I also set the volume to maximum in alsamixer and pavucontrol, even after setting VolumeOverdrive to true in kmixrc. I have kmix running. I removed and installed back pulseaudio to see if it makes a difference, and it seems it does not. When I start kmixctrl in a terminal, it finishes without anything happening.
When using alsamixer are you looking at the volume for pulseaudio or at the hardware mixer volume? (Use F6 to change the device you're looking at.)
Hello,
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Ian Malone ibmalone@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 June 2014 02:23, Oliver Ruebenacker curoli@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,After a fresh install of Fedora 20, 32bit, and adding enough packages
to
watch YouTube videos, I have sound (for both the YouTube videos and for Clanbomber), but the volume is way too low, almost inaudible.
I have a volume setting widget on the lower panel and I set volume to maximum. I also set the volume to maximum in alsamixer and pavucontrol,
even
after setting VolumeOverdrive to true in kmixrc. I have kmix running. I removed and installed back pulseaudio to see if it makes a difference,
and
it seems it does not. When I start kmixctrl in a terminal, it finishes without anything happening.
When using alsamixer are you looking at the volume for pulseaudio or at the hardware mixer volume? (Use F6 to change the device you're looking at.)
Thanks for suggesting F6. I have no idea what all these dials in alsamixer mean, but I rotated through all I could find with F6 and set all to maximum (most were already), but unfortunately I noticed no change in volumne.
Best, Oliver
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On 2 June 2014 16:25, Oliver Ruebenacker curoli@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Ian Malone ibmalone@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 June 2014 02:23, Oliver Ruebenacker curoli@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,After a fresh install of Fedora 20, 32bit, and adding enough packages to watch YouTube videos, I have sound (for both the YouTube videos and for Clanbomber), but the volume is way too low, almost inaudible.
I have a volume setting widget on the lower panel and I set volume to maximum. I also set the volume to maximum in alsamixer and pavucontrol, even after setting VolumeOverdrive to true in kmixrc. I have kmix running. I removed and installed back pulseaudio to see if it makes a difference, and it seems it does not. When I start kmixctrl in a terminal, it finishes without anything happening.
When using alsamixer are you looking at the volume for pulseaudio or at the hardware mixer volume? (Use F6 to change the device you're looking at.)
Thanks for suggesting F6. I have no idea what all these dials in alsamixer mean, but I rotated through all I could find with F6 and set all to maximum (most were already), but unfortunately I noticed no change in volumne.
I'd expect to see an entry in the F6 menu for any hardware devices you have and one for pulseaudio if you're still using it. e.g. this RHEL system shows: - (default) 0 HDA Intel PCH 1 HDA NVidia
Where '-' is the pulseaudio entry (on my Fedora systems it call itself pulseaudio), 0 is the onboard soundcard and 1 is the HDMI sound. I'd then try adjusting 'master' on the hardware one. If it makes no difference going up and down then you're not adjusting the right mixer. One thing that can be a bit confusing is when you adjust the pulse volume it will adjust the hardware mixer volume (because it's better to adjust the overall level through the hardware mixer rather than set levels in software), to get that right it relies on information from the soundcard driver. So if that's going wrong and you adjust the hardware mixer then the pulseaudio level then it will undo your changes to the hardware mixer.
Further thoughts: what is your audio hardware? Have you had it playing louder than this previously? It might be necessary to take it up with the ALSA people if it's a problem with the levels being set on your hardware mixer.
Hello,
I can make the headphones very loud, but not the main speaker.
Any idea what this might mean?
Thanks!
Best, Oliver
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Ian Malone ibmalone@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 June 2014 16:25, Oliver Ruebenacker curoli@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Ian Malone ibmalone@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 June 2014 02:23, Oliver Ruebenacker curoli@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,After a fresh install of Fedora 20, 32bit, and adding enough
packages
to watch YouTube videos, I have sound (for both the YouTube videos and
for
Clanbomber), but the volume is way too low, almost inaudible.
I have a volume setting widget on the lower panel and I set volume
to
maximum. I also set the volume to maximum in alsamixer and
pavucontrol,
even after setting VolumeOverdrive to true in kmixrc. I have kmix running.
I
removed and installed back pulseaudio to see if it makes a difference, and it seems it does not. When I start kmixctrl in a terminal, it finishes without anything happening.
When using alsamixer are you looking at the volume for pulseaudio or at the hardware mixer volume? (Use F6 to change the device you're looking at.)
Thanks for suggesting F6. I have no idea what all these dials in
alsamixer
mean, but I rotated through all I could find with F6 and set all to
maximum
(most were already), but unfortunately I noticed no change in volumne.
I'd expect to see an entry in the F6 menu for any hardware devices you have and one for pulseaudio if you're still using it. e.g. this RHEL system shows:
- (default)
0 HDA Intel PCH 1 HDA NVidia
Where '-' is the pulseaudio entry (on my Fedora systems it call itself pulseaudio), 0 is the onboard soundcard and 1 is the HDMI sound. I'd then try adjusting 'master' on the hardware one. If it makes no difference going up and down then you're not adjusting the right mixer. One thing that can be a bit confusing is when you adjust the pulse volume it will adjust the hardware mixer volume (because it's better to adjust the overall level through the hardware mixer rather than set levels in software), to get that right it relies on information from the soundcard driver. So if that's going wrong and you adjust the hardware mixer then the pulseaudio level then it will undo your changes to the hardware mixer.
Further thoughts: what is your audio hardware? Have you had it playing louder than this previously? It might be necessary to take it up with the ALSA people if it's a problem with the levels being set on your hardware mixer.
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Hello,
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Ian Malone ibmalone@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 June 2014 16:25, Oliver Ruebenacker curoli@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Ian Malone ibmalone@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 June 2014 02:23, Oliver Ruebenacker curoli@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,After a fresh install of Fedora 20, 32bit, and adding enough
packages
to watch YouTube videos, I have sound (for both the YouTube videos and
for
Clanbomber), but the volume is way too low, almost inaudible.
I have a volume setting widget on the lower panel and I set volume
to
maximum. I also set the volume to maximum in alsamixer and
pavucontrol,
even after setting VolumeOverdrive to true in kmixrc. I have kmix running.
I
removed and installed back pulseaudio to see if it makes a difference, and it seems it does not. When I start kmixctrl in a terminal, it finishes without anything happening.
When using alsamixer are you looking at the volume for pulseaudio or at the hardware mixer volume? (Use F6 to change the device you're looking at.)
Thanks for suggesting F6. I have no idea what all these dials in
alsamixer
mean, but I rotated through all I could find with F6 and set all to
maximum
(most were already), but unfortunately I noticed no change in volumne.
I'd expect to see an entry in the F6 menu for any hardware devices you have and one for pulseaudio if you're still using it. e.g. this RHEL system shows:
- (default)
0 HDA Intel PCH 1 HDA NVidia
Where '-' is the pulseaudio entry (on my Fedora systems it call itself pulseaudio), 0 is the onboard soundcard and 1 is the HDMI sound. I'd then try adjusting 'master' on the hardware one. If it makes no difference going up and down then you're not adjusting the right mixer. One thing that can be a bit confusing is when you adjust the pulse volume it will adjust the hardware mixer volume (because it's better to adjust the overall level through the hardware mixer rather than set levels in software), to get that right it relies on information from the soundcard driver. So if that's going wrong and you adjust the hardware mixer then the pulseaudio level then it will undo your changes to the hardware mixer.
Further thoughts: what is your audio hardware? Have you had it playing louder than this previously? It might be necessary to take it up with the ALSA people if it's a problem with the levels being set on your hardware mixer.
I can lower the volume by lowering some volume controls, what I meant was I can't get it any higher by setting those to highest that had not yet been.
Volume worked fine (i.e. was high enough) when the machine was running Windows XP.
AlsaMixer recognizes PulseAudio and an Intel ICH5 card with a Analog Devices AD1981B chip.
I was assuming I don't need any additional driver but maybe I do?
Thanks!
Best, Oliver
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