Sound is too low in Kubuntu Karmic.

[Shibblet]

I have Karmic installed on my notebook. And the sound is REALLY quiet, to the point of being inaudible with the volume maxed out.

Any ideas how to get this fixed?

[MoonRise]

Re: Sound is too low in Kubuntu Karmic.

You wouldn't happen to know what sound chip your notebook uses do you? Is PulseAduio installed?

[Shibblet]

Re: Sound is too low in Kubuntu Karmic.

RealTek AC688, and it does have pulse installed.

[dibl]

Re: Sound is too low in Kubuntu Karmic.

Install pavucontrol and pamu and see if you can use pavucontrol to raise the master volume.

[vinnywright]

Re: Sound is too low in Kubuntu Karmic.

and have you opend kmix and checked the chanels to make shur thar all visable and make shur thar all unmuted and the sliders ar up?

click the speeker Icon and mixer then setings and configure chanels.

VINNY

[Shibblet]

Re: Sound is too low in Kubuntu Karmic.

and have you opend kmix and checked the chanels to make shur thar all visable and make shur thar all unmuted and the sliders ar up?

I opened up all of them, but only three seem to have any effect on maximum volume. Those are all maxed out, and the sound is so low, I can't hear it if I put my ear RIGHT up to the speakers.

Now granted this notebook isn't going to be the loudest thing in the world, but I know it's at least audible.

[Snowhog]

Re: Sound is too low in Kubuntu Karmic.

Not stated, and almost to obvious, but, have you checked the volume control slider/wheel on the laptop?

[Shibblet]

Re: Sound is too low in Kubuntu Karmic.

Not stated, and almost to obvious, but, have you checked the volume control slider/wheel on the laptop?

It's all internal. There is no slider wheel. But yes, the internal one, I have pushed to the max.

[Snowhog]

Re: Sound is too low in Kubuntu Karmic.

A laptop with no manual volume control? What manufacture and model?

[MoonRise]

Re: Sound is too low in Kubuntu Karmic.

Install pavucontrol and pamu and see if you can use pavucontrol to raise the master volume.

This is the route I'd go first.

[vinnywright]

Re: Sound is too low in Kubuntu Karmic.

PulseAudio Volume Control

PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and
WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with
much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.

PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is a simple GTK+ based volume
control tool (mixer) for the PulseAudio sound server. In contrast to
classic mixer tools this one allows you to control both the volume of
hardware devices and of each playback stream separately. It also allows
you to redirect a playback stream to another output device without
interrupting playback.

sound's reasnabel................!!

VINNY

[dibl]

Re: Sound is too low in Kubuntu Karmic.

Ooops, I wrote "pamu" but it is actually "paman".

dibl@karmic:~$ man paman
PAMAN(1)

NAME
paman - PulseAudio Manager

SYNOPSIS
paman

DESCRIPTION
PulseAudio Manager (paman) is a simple GTK frontend for the PulseAudio sound server. With paman you may browse most of PulseAudio´s
internals. There is support for changing the volume of sinks and sink inputs. You´re also able to play samples from the sample cache.

OPTIONS
paman does not accept any options.

SEE ALSO
pulseaudio(1), padevchooser(1)

@Snowhog, the little netbooks don't have external volume controls, in some/many cases. Neither my Asus EeePC 701 nor my Toshiba NB205 have one.

[MoonRise]

Re: Sound is too low in Kubuntu Karmic.

My Acer Laptop doesn't either.

[Shibblet]

Re: Sound is too low in Kubuntu Karmic.

Yep, that seemed to fix the issue. pavucontrol was the kicker. Why were all of the volumes set down at 17% to begin with?

And isn't ALSA a lot more stable than Pulse? I've heard varying opinions. But whatever the case may be, it works now. Thanks guys!

[MoonRise]

Re: Sound is too low in Kubuntu Karmic.

I've had varying degrees of success and failures with Pulse. It depends, from what I've experienced, to the machine and how the sound device is configured by the Mfg.