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saalty

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Registered: 2012-04-06

Posts: 90

Alsa audio is too low

Hi all,

I have an issue with volume, it's too quiet. It is problem from beginning but I don't care about that untill now. I tried with the arch wiki but this hda-analyzer_run.py script doesn't works for me, the error is :

File "/dev/shm/hda-analyzer/hda_analyzer.py", line 48
    raise ValueError, "URL %s" % url
                    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Also tried with asound.conf from wiki with plug and hw but it doesn't exist in alsamixer, even if I restarted my laptop.
Any ideas how can I fix it?

greetz

saalty

dsdante

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Registered: 2014-12-04

Posts: 13

Re: Alsa audio is too low

Are you sure the problem is software? Did you try the same sound card + speakers in other OS?

Last edited by dsdante (2015-11-07 13:57:39)

ewaller

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Re: Alsa audio is too low

Are you using Pulseaudio?

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saalty

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Re: Alsa audio is too low

Are you using Pulseaudio?

I don't use it....

mauritiusdadd

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Re: Alsa audio is too low

For the record, it seems you are running the script using python3... have you run the command

$ sed -i 's/python %s/python2 %s/' hda-analyzer.py

as suggested in the wiki?

Last edited by mauritiusdadd (2015-11-08 08:45:19)

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saalty

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Registered: 2012-04-06

Posts: 90

Re: Alsa audio is too low

For the record, it seems you are running the script using python3... have you run the command

$ sed -i 's/python %s/python2 %s/' hda-analyzer.py

as suggested in the wiki?

now it's working, but I don't know how to reset the device....When I close the analyser it doesn't asko me for reset...

saalty

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Registered: 2012-04-06

Posts: 90

Re: Alsa audio is too low

Now Pre-Amp from wiki now is working when PulseAudio is not installed. But when PulseAudio is installed it has no effect. PulseAudio is required by Skype. It couldn't works with apulse. I get error with apulse:

$ apulse skype
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:963:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
[apulse] [error] do_connect_pcm, snd_pcm_open, Invalid argument
[apulse] [error] do_connect_pcm, snd_pcm_open, Invalid argument