turn up volume on soundcard software

[Dave Germiquet]

Did you make sure the following:

Is the PCM volume totally increased?
None of the Master/PCM volume control doesn't MM and that it has OO ?

You can also try playing continuous music and changing the IEC958
values and make sure its not muted

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Mr Chris Aitken <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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