How to boost sound level on Fedora11?

[narasim_7]

Hello,
I was facing the same issue of sound levels being very low. The suggestion to use alsamixer -c0
worked.
Thank you very much

acer aspire 5920
Fedora 11 Preview (updated on 17th May 2009)

[AdamW]

Can you please file a bug report according to the instructions here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497966#c1

and then post a link in this thread so I can triage it? thanks!

[narasim_7]

Hello,
I saw the bug report and there is a fix mentioned there.Do you still want me to attach the alsamixer output and my hardware's details. If yes, I would be unable to do it now as I do not have the laptop with me. I will do it by this weekend.

[axet]

yes please. you may have differend hardware which can be interesing for fedora community

[AdamW]

right. for each different sound adapter on which this bug happens, we actually need a separate bug report (because the fix will be separate in each case). so please do file a new report with the required info. If you happen to have exactly the same hardware as someone else who's already reported the problem, I'll close your bug as a dupe, otherwise it'll be valid. thanks!

[axet]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502246

[rookcifer]

I could have posted the same thing, nearly word-for-word.

I can listen to music at deafening levels on my desktop and laptop PCs using Fedora 10 (and prior), Windoze XP, and Vista, but while trying Fedora 11 Beta on both machines I noticed that the sound is very low with everything set to 100%.

I ran gnome-volume-control from the command-line, thinking it would open the old mixer, but it opens the new volume control.

Is there a way to set Master, PCM, Headphones, etc. (what the old mixer allowed you to control) to 100% using gconf-editor or something?

Nope. Not with Pulseaudio enabled. And if you think you can get rid of Pulseaudio, think again. It is being forced on us by Fedora devs. Sure, you can remove all pulse packages except for the libs, but this did me no good. I still had no control over any ALSA mixer setting (I couldn't even adjust the volume). Maybe you might have better luck. You can certainly try.

On the other hand, I installed Kubuntu and my sound is perfect. Kubuntu does not force Pulseaudio on its users. Wise decision.

On my XP and Vista, when you right-click the volume icon you see options to adjust several different things...

Exactly. It seems the Fedora devs believe that a setting that ALL brain dead Windoze users can easily configure is too "complicated" for Fedora Linux users! Go figure.

In my opinion, this should be what the new volume icon should do in GNOME. Right-click it and see ALSA, Pulse, Sound Events, etc.

But this is not the intention of the PA devs. They don't want you having that kind of control. That's the entire point of PA to begin with!

Unless I'm missing something obvious, I'd have to say this wasn't thought through very well and I hope they end up going back to the method used in Fedora 10 and prior..

No, it wasn't thought through very well and there is a fat chance it will be changed.

Your options:

1) Live with it
2) Switch to another distro.

I chose option 2.

[AdamW]

rookcifer, please don't spread misinformation. It's perfectly easy to access the ALSA mixers in Fedora 11, I have spent considerable personal effort working on this, and it is fully documented in both the Release Notes:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docum...Volume_Control

and the Common Bugs:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Commo...satisfactorily

and, in fact, earlier in this very thread. It's fine to not like PulseAudio, but what you're saying is simply not true.

axet: thanks for filing the bug, I have triaged it appropriately.

[narasim_7]

I have filed this bug

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502283

[AdamW]

Thanks a lot, I have triaged it.