Sound always lower under Suse

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With Aplified speakers I can get Suse to produce
louder sound. But It is always a fight.
If I boot into Vista it becomes deafening and it is effortless.
Mixer is as loud as it can go.
Is there anyway to force the sound to be louder.
Is there any risk of screwing anything else up by doing it if there is?

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Try going to YaST > Hardware > Sound > Other > Volume and move both PCM and Master volume up to 95%. Close YaST. Then go to your mixer (kmix in KDE and alsamixer in Gnome) and move up the Master and PCM (and speaker volume control if applicable) to a level that has the volume setting that you like.

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it say not configured above my sound card name but it see it.
The other volum option doesn’t work at all.
I was only able to enable pulse audio.

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??? and why have you not configured it? Did you instead configure it with “alsaconf” ?

Logically, I would not expect too much from a sound device if one has not configured it, … but maybe thats just me.

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Well I had no idea how to do it manually.
If you could point me to a good tut I’d try it maybe.
stuff like this is a headache that is why most people have no patience for linux. maye vi a configuration file change certain settings?
don’t get me wrong I love linux and this headaches help me learn. but
sometimes my time is limited.

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I think its all semi-automatic. You start the configuration program and accept the defaults. Your choices are either (not both):

  • YaST > Hardware > Sound > Edit or
  • open a konsole or terminal and type: su -c alsconf #enter root password when prompted for a password

There is a complicated guide here:
SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE

Reference the headache - its all a matter of familiarity. I can NOT find anything in Vista (nor XP for that matter) and hence most videos/audio simply do NOT play in those OS for me. But I also rarely use those OS.

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I am really surprised at that ms has a near monopoly
and windows media player files have problems playin in kaffein.
VMware is usually my answer. In the main stream world most things are made for windows and mac os. I know it sucks. but it is true.

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There are many options for playing Windows Media files. … Please take a look at this post: openSUSE Forums - View Single Post - configure your multimedia Apologies for the pontification on that URL.

In openSUSE, most codecs come as dependencies of the Packman packaged libffmpeg0, and one can get extra codecs by installing libffmpeg0, w32codec-all, libxvidcore4, and libquicktime0 all from the Packman packagers. Do not mix packman and videolan packaged multimedia applications/codecs (hence I recommend ONLY packman packaged applications/codecs).

Note you MUST replace the Novell/SuSE-GmbH packaged multimedia applications with the improved Packman packaged versions.

IMHO what you have encountered is a lack of familiarity with Linux and you have encountered the typical ex-Window’s user inability to lever their Windows knowledge in Linux, as things in Linux are completely different “under the hood” (so to speak).

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Dude you rock!
Linux us louder than Windows vista now.
Simply by clicking on Normal instead of Automatic and raising every volume setting.

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