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orschiro

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Registered: 2009-06-04

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Low volume with alsa und pulse

Hi guys,

Compared to my Ubuntu setup the volume of my arch setup is lower although all settings I know about are set to maximum.

I use alsa together with pulse.

In the following screenshots from alsamixer and pavucontrol.

Alsamixer showing pulse server

Alsamixer showing sound card

Pavucontrol

Any ideas how I can increase the total volume?

Regards

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@orschiro

xfce-tux

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Registered: 2011-06-19

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Re: Low volume with alsa und pulse

seems you have not setup the volume in your desktop environment?
Is in /etc/rc.conf loaded:
(in DAEMONS array)
alsa , acpid , dbus , fam (or hal) ?

(in MODULES array)
snd-* (maybe no one, as modules checked by udev at boot time)

Also run

lsmod | grep snd

to check the correct modules are loaded.
Heve fun!

orschiro

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Re: Low volume with alsa und pulse

Well I setup the volume but it is just to low compared to a Ubuntu system, also using pulseaudio and alsa.

My rc.conf should look fine.

#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux

LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Pacific/Auckland"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

MODULES=(lenovo-sl-laptop asus-laptop acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand vboxdrv)

UDEV_TIMEOUT=30
USEDMRAID="no"
USEBTRFS="no"
USELVM="no"

HOSTNAME="thinkpad"

DAEMONS=(dbus !network !dhcdbd !networkmanager syslog-ng @alsa @wicd @bluetooth @acpid)

The relevant modules are loaded through udev.

[robert@thinkpad ~]$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     22092  1 
snd_hda_codec_conexant    46356  1 
snd_hda_intel          22122  2 
snd_hda_codec          77927  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               6325  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                73888  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              19416  1 snd_pcm
snd                    57818  11 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6146  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7121  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

Regards

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orschiro

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Re: Low volume with alsa und pulse

I'm open to other ideas. A workaround is to increase the volume of certain applications. For me it was mplayer which I wanted to play files louder. Luckily increasing the volume can be set in the mplayer config.

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d2ogch3n

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Registered: 2010-01-20

Posts: 42

Re: Low volume with alsa und pulse

have a look at the link below. I have a T61 thinkpad which has low volume and this helped.

http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/adding- … nd-levels/