Sound is very quiet after reinstall

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 08:09:48PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> I just reinstalled Debian on my desktop, and everything works, but the
> sounds is really quiet.  I am not sure how to fix this.
> 
> Things I've tried:
> 
> looked at 'alsamixer'
> both Master and PCM are at 100%
> 
> both headphone and audio output are very quiet
> 
> No other programs seem to have much effect on increasing the volume.
> Any thoughts?
> 
> dmesg:
> 
> [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.26-1-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-13) (waldi-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-24)) #1 SMP Sat Jan 10 17:57:00 UTC 2009
> 
> <snip>
> 
> [    9.871456] hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC883, trying auto-probe from BIOS...
> 
> lspci -vv
> 
> 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
> 	Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device 0ce4
> 	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> 	Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max)
> 	Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 22
> 	Region 0: Memory at fe024000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> 	Capabilities: <access denied>
> 	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
> 	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

Check in alsamixer and see if both master and pcm volumes are set at a
reasonable level (I tend to go for about 75% since any more can cause
distorsion on some sound chips).

-- 
Len Sorensen
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