Fedora 13 , low sounds & voice

[Marcus78]

Hello!

I did an upgrade from F12 -> F13, everything went fine & works correctly. There's no errors in a logs &
and dmesg also gives clean output.

However, when I'm trying to listen music, use skype, music/voice is very low. My volume output is atm
150% all volume settings are maxed out to hear anything. I've checked all the settings and cannot
adjust volume to any higher.

Any ideas?

[php1ic]

I had a simliar problem on F12. Try typing 'alsamixer' at the terminal, you will then be presented with some levels that you can adjust.

[Marcus78]

I ran alsamixer, but there was all settings 100% for output. Maybe fresh install of F13 might help
but as long there's an update option I would like to use it, fresh install takes allways time when you
need to reinstall all the stuff you've had

---------- Post added at 11:33 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 02:13 PM CDT ----------

I did fresh install of F13, problem still exists. Annoying when listening very good song and would
like to put a bit louder but no...

[Marcus78]

I tried to fix this by installing VIA Linux drivers (VT1708S). Well, there is something wrong with the Asus
provided driver and installation script just removed old kernel modules and after that
it failed to compile new one

How can I reinstall those old kernel modules? I've tried following:

yum reinstall kernel
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Reinstall Process
Package kernel-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64 is allowed multiple installs, skipping
Package kernel-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 is allowed multiple installs, skipping
Nothing to do

EDIT: solved this one,

I just downloaded kernel-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64.rpm and did rpm --force -i
and got modules back, however original problem still exists.

[AHaa]

Same problem here. I did a fresh install using Fedora 13 live-cd (64-bit). Now sounds are way too low. I have checked that all mixer are set to 100%.

My mainboard is ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO with AMD 785G chipset and I'm using the integrated sound card.

With Fedora 12 and Windows 7 sounds are working fine.

[oldcpu]

If you run the diagnostic script:

/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

it will provide detail on your audio configuration, including good information on your mixer. It won't directly solve a problem, but sometimes the information helps.

Don't post the output here, as it is too large.

[Marcus78]

Originally Posted by oldcpu

If you run the diagnostic script:

/usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh

it will provide detail on your audio configuration, including good information on your mixer. It won't directly solve a problem, but sometimes the information helps.

I've ran that already. It shows correctly all the details about my soundcard (MB Asus M4A77TD PRO
VIA VT1708)+ loads of ATI stuff.

Tried alsamixer + all kind of sound configuration tools. Only way to get "louder" sound out is set
output to 150%, that just causes that sounds got terrible noise because output is too high.

lspci doesn't show any Audio controllers but only my ATI 4870 HDMI stuff + other D/A related audio
devices. However there's snd_hda_intel module loaded + codec & stuff.

I don't know if is it just driver which cannot use correctly my soundcard (integrated). In Fedora 12
everything worked fine.

Gonna try to disabling ACPI and some other boot time options (there was some recommendations from
VIA) and will post here if it helps.

[AHaa]

Okay, you can see mine here: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=22...6042fab44467b4

This could be the problem?

Simple mixer control 'Master Front',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 42
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 42 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 42 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]

If I go to sound settings and in Output tab change the connector from "Analog Output" to "Analog Headphones" then there is no sound at all. If I connect my amplifier to my headphones jack in front of my computer, the sound is as quiet as it was connected to the rear of my computer. Changing settings doesn't make any difference, regardless of where I have connected my amplifier.

[GoinEasy9]

Try installing pavucontrol and see if there are any adjustments you can make from there. I do believe it's how I got my skype working. yum install pavucontrol

---------- Post added at 03:05 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 03:03 PM CDT ----------

yum install paman Is the pulse audio manager, that might also have settings you don't see in alsa, but it controls alsa in some respects.

[AHaa]

In paman I can increase the level from 100% to 10000% but as you know, music sounds terrible after that. Actually the level isn't normal even in 10000%.

I tried also pavucontrol, but nothing special there. Everything is on 100% and I tried many combinations of output channels and devices without results.

I have also an HDMI output but I have never used that. I use normal analog stereo output of my integrated card.

[Marcus78]

I've tried many different things , boot options, vendor drivers etc. to solve this. However it seems that this problem needs
some "deeper" examination and I simply doesn't have time for that. I think some update in a future will fix this
(hopefully), until that = no snacks while watching movies (can't hear anything if doing so )

[errorxp]

I've also noticed that the sound levels are somehow lower than before.

[Ubuntu-Finland]

terminal:

alsamixer -D hw:0

---more volume, but how to save those settings. That's the problem. After reboot the sound is as weak as it has been since i installed F13.

[AHaa]

Thanks Ubuntu-Finland! Kiitti avusta!

I solved the problem like this:

1. as root, run

   alsamixer -D hw:0

2. press arrow up to increase volume, then press esc to exit
3. as root, run

   alsactl store

Worked for me even after the reboot

[xuniltoor]

I didnt run it as root in fedora but this worked.

alsamixer -c0

alsactl store