On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 11:05:31AM -0500, Rob wrote: > Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > > Also, if you need that ~/.asoundrc then analogue sound is probably > > quiet - maybe not a problem for you, but it is for me, I have to > > turn the amplifier up to 11 - at least I use headphones, so it's > > only me, and not my neighbours, who gets hurt if I leave the amp > > turned up and use a differnet machine ;-) > > > That was always my problem with HDA_Intel as well. I wrote up a asoundrc that > set up my two internal PCI cards as devices instead. In addition to the low > volume, the onboard Intel audio chip also had way too much trebble in it. In > my case, best to skip it altogether, at least on my desktop machines. > For my Toshiba Satellite laptop which also uses HDA_Intel, I ran into a > different problem--the HDMI port wanted to snag index=0 for alsa. I forgot > how I solved that since it's been a few years since I played with that > particular computer, but it was quite annoying.
I think the index=0 problem was why I had to use that ~/.asoundrc. ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
