Volume too low on F20 (32bit)

[Someone]

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.