Author Topic: Very quiet sound in LXDE  (Read 1244 times)

Offline David_J_D

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Very quiet sound in LXDE
« on: March 11, 2012, 01:10:07 PM »
With the speakers up full it's at a quiet 'Background' level using intel HDA driver (snd_hda_intel[ALSA])

BUT, on the same box in 'PCLOS fall magic Enlightenment' sound is spot on using the same driver (Also sound OK in Win7).

Here's the soundcard details:
Identification
Vendor: ‎ATI Technologies Inc

Description: ‎SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)

Media class: ‎Audio device

Connection
Bus: ‎PCI

PCI domain: ‎0

Bus PCI #: ‎0

PCI device #: ‎20

PCI function #: ‎2

Vendor ID: ‎0x1002

Device ID: ‎0x4383

Sub vendor ID: ‎0x1849
 intel HDA
Sub device ID: ‎0x2888 intel HDA

Driver
Module: ‎snd_hda_intel

Alternative drivers: ‎unknown

Both LXDE and Enlightenment are fully up to date (updated earlier today)
Why the difference between PCLOS installs when the only difference is the DE?

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Re: Very quiet sound in LXDE
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2012, 01:24:10 PM »
David_J_D:

You need to adjust the sliders on whatever sound mixer is being used. Mine looks like this;


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Re: Very quiet sound in LXDE
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2012, 11:04:46 AM »
I should have said that I've already tried that.  With sliders on Max I still get very quiet sound in LXDE.


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Re: Very quiet sound in LXDE
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2012, 12:56:34 PM »
I should have said that I've already tried that.  With sliders on Max I still get very quiet sound in LXDE.



Have you run alsaconf as root?
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Re: Very quiet sound in LXDE
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2012, 11:15:27 AM »
You could try installing aumix-text in both DEs (shouldn't have much in the way of dependencies), and then check (in each DE) that the same channels are available, and set to the same levels...

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[Solved] Very quiet sound in LXDE
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2012, 05:07:57 AM »
Running alsaconf as root did the trick, I must have had a brain-dead moment there.
 Many thanks Old Polack.