low sound volume with opensuse 11.0 on Dell Latitude D830

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#1

Hey folks

I installed (like many others of course) opensuse 11.0 and I must say it’s pretty good, there have been a lot of improvements in the new version and I really like it a lot.

A problem I hae though is that the sound (with pulse audio) is really silent. With everything maxed out, it’s still not half as loud as it was with previous suse versions, where should I start?

Thanks in advance

#2

if you are tallking about a laptop, what is your sound card?HDA intel?
if it is HDA intel, you have to specify the model of the sound card.

#3 
elise:/home/v1per/Desktop # hwinfo --sound
26: PCI 1b.0: 0403 Audio device                                 
  [Created at pci.310]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_284b
  Unique ID: u1Nb.bHIrUAw8+c5
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1b.0
  Hardware Class: sound
  Model: "Intel 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x284b "82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
  SubDevice: pci 0x01fe 
  Revision: 0x02
  Driver: "HDA Intel"
  Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel"
  Memory Range: 0xfebfc000-0xfebfffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 21 (503 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d0000284Bsv00001028sd000001FEbc04sc03i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel"
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
#4

my laptop is dell xps m1530, i have same problem with you !

it trouble me a lot! the sound is so low.
even i max all the input and output volume i can find,soud also not lound !
what is the matter?

#5

Have you guys upped the volumes of all mixers?

There are multiple ones in the KMix and GNOME Volume Control - do not use the PulseAudio volume control but the real desktop mixers. Also look at File / Change Device and go through those.

#6

Thanks! Found the volume for the front speaker extremely low. Bumped it up and had all the sound I need…:slight_smile:

(I’m using gnome and it was under volume control through the application browser)