Re: [gentoo-user] How to Fix Extraoardinarily Loud Alsa?

[Marc Stürmer]

Am 2016-11-01 14:55, schrieb Hunter Jozwiak:


I finally got the base install of Gentoo done, but I've come across a
really interesting probleing. After installing Alsa and enabling its
daemon, I had copied the asound.conf from the distro I was using on to
the system. Unfortunately, this give the side effect that ALSA is



The sound levels are not stored in the asound.conf. Aside this, ALSA 
comes per default with muted volumes, so that you don't blow your ears 
when powering your loud speakers the first time on.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to Fix Extraoardinarily Loud Alsa?

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Hunter Jozwiak  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I finally got the base install of Gentoo done, but I've come across a
> really interesting probleing. After installing Alsa and enabling its
> daemon, I had copied the asound.conf from the distro I was using on to
> the system. Unfortunately, this give the side effect that ALSA is
> extremely loud (I would guess top volume), and none of the sliders
> seem to work. I am using my Intel high definition audio card. Has
> anyone come across a similar issue? If so, how did you go about fixing
> it?
>

You may want to give /usr/bin/alsamixer a try, which comes with
media-sound/alsa-utils.
See the manpage for sample usage.
man -k alsamixer
alsamixer (1)- soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard driver, with ncurse...

[gentoo-user] How to Fix Extraoardinarily Loud Alsa?

[Hunter Jozwiak]

Hi,

I finally got the base install of Gentoo done, but I've come across a
really interesting probleing. After installing Alsa and enabling its
daemon, I had copied the asound.conf from the distro I was using on to
the system. Unfortunately, this give the side effect that ALSA is
extremely loud (I would guess top volume), and none of the sliders
seem to work. I am using my Intel high definition audio card. Has
anyone come across a similar issue? If so, how did you go about fixing
it?