turn up volume on soundcard software

[Mr Chris Aitken]

Dave Germiquet wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Are you using ALSA?

I guess so.

>  Usually when I use alsa with sound cards I need to
> fiddle around with alsamixer.
>   

Okay, I ran alsamixer and increased the two Master sliders - those just 
do the same thing the volume icon on the panel and the volume icon on 
youtube do. one affects the other.

> You can run alsamixer from the command line to increase the sound and
> change options to make your sound card work.
>
> Variety options helped me out
>
> IEC958
> IEC958PCM
>
> PCM
>
> Fiddling with the mutes and making sure things aren't muted.
>
> Hope this helps. Best of luck.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Mr Chris Aitken <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   
>> I have a Ubuntu machine:
>>
>> chris at cpc:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
>> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
>> DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
>> DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
>> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS"
>>
>> I need to turn up the volume on the computer's soundcard software. I'm not
>> talking about the little volume control on the panel. How do I do this?
>>
>> Chris
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