Volume too low on F20 (32bit)

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

     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 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 June 2014 16:25, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >      Hello,
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2 June 2014 02:23, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli at 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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-- 
Oliver Ruebenacker
Founder at Relomics Consulting <http://www.relomics.com>
Be always grateful, but never satisfied.
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