Low Volume on Dell 1535 Intel 82801H

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Hi

Im new on opensuse 11.1, I’ve installed OS and everything goes well, but the sound is too low, In the past with Vista the sound was high, with a Intrepid version of Ubutu works fine too (with hardy is low), but in OpenSuse is too low.

In Volumen Control Front Left and Front Right it’s at 100%, I don’t know if it’s another switch.

Maybe this output Helps:

hwinfo --sound
14: PCI 1b.0: 0403 Audio device
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_284b
Unique ID: u1Nb.5McvgV6tXe2
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 0x0254
Revision: 0x03
Driver: “HDA Intel”
Driver Modules: “snd_hda_intel”
Memory Range: 0xf6dfc000-0xf6dfffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 21 (28911 events)
Module Alias: “pci:v00008086d0000284Bsv00001028sd00000254bc04sc03i00”
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

Let me know what do i have to do to improve the sound.

Thanks in advance.
Let me know if you need something else to detect the problem

Sorry for my english :shame::stuck_out_tongue:

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I have a Dell Studio 15 laptop. I think it is a Dell 1537 (similar but not identical to yours).

In my case, on openSUSE-11.1 with KDE-3.5.10, I went to YaST > Hardware > Sound > Other > Volume and moved both the PCM and Master volume controls up to 95%. I then closed YaST. Next I went to my mixer (kmix) and moved up Master, PCM and also Speaker ! Moving up the volume control on that last one (ie on speaker) was the trick to getting good volume.

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Thanks a lot
the speaker was at 50%.