Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-26 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:17:44PM -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: Hello everyone! I have a conundrum for you. Today I had rebooted into Windows to take care of something and when I booted right back into debian, my sound became very very very quiet. To confirm my hardware wasn't on the

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-26 Thread Jon Dowland
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Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.ukwrote: There are two possibilities I can think of. One is that you're using pulseaudio and not checking its volume level (to confirm this, start alsamixer and press F6 to select a different 'card'). Didn't think I was

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-26 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Sep 2012 at 21:49:58 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: On 09/25/2012 04:21 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sep 25, 2012 12:18 PM, Conrad Nelson y...@marupa.net mailto:y...@marupa.net wrote: Any ideas on why ALSA is suddenly outputting my sound so very quietly despite my volume levels

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-26 Thread Brian
On Wed 26 Sep 2012 at 16:06:21 +0100, Brian wrote: The advice given at http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/adding-an-alsa-software-pre-amp-to-fix-low-sound-levels/ does work. There is an extra control in alsamixer and rebooting is not necessary to get it. See how you go on. I forgot to

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: The advice given at http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/adding-an-alsa-software-pre-amp-to-fix-low-sound-levels/ does work. There is an extra control in alsamixer and rebooting is not necessary to get it. See how you go on.

Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-25 Thread Conrad Nelson
Hello everyone! I have a conundrum for you. Today I had rebooted into Windows to take care of something and when I booted right back into debian, my sound became very very very quiet. To confirm my hardware wasn't on the fritz, I rebooted back into Windows to be greeted with normal volume.

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sep 25, 2012 12:18 PM, Conrad Nelson y...@marupa.net wrote: Any ideas on why ALSA is suddenly outputting my sound so very quietly despite my volume levels being all the way up? Annoyingly, this has always been a problem for me with a Thinkpad T400. I'd be interested in a fix, too.

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-25 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/25/2012 04:21 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sep 25, 2012 12:18 PM, Conrad Nelson y...@marupa.net mailto:y...@marupa.net wrote: Any ideas on why ALSA is suddenly outputting my sound so very quietly despite my volume levels being all the way up? Annoyingly, this has always been a