Volume too low on F20 (32bit)

Oliver Ruebenacker curoli at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 15:23:30 UTC 2014


     Hello,

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Someone <someone249 at 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,
> >      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.
>

  Thanks for the suggestion, but it made no change.

     Best,
     Oliver


>
> Good luck.
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Oliver Ruebenacker
Founder at Relomics Consulting <http://www.relomics.com>
Be always grateful, but never satisfied.
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