[gentoo-user] How do I turn my audio up?

2011-11-03 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo! On my PC's audio, whilst playing CDs, with all volume settings maxed out, the volume can't be said to be louder than comfortable and sensible. In quiet passages, the music gets drowned out by the noise of the power supply. I know from plugging in my iPod that the loudspeakers are

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn my audio up?

2011-11-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo! On my PC's audio, whilst playing CDs, with all volume settings maxed out, the volume can't be said to be louder than comfortable and sensible. In quiet passages, the music gets drowned out by the noise of the power

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn my audio up?

2011-11-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo! On my PC's audio, whilst playing CDs, with all volume settings maxed out, the volume can't be said to be louder than comfortable and sensible. In quiet passages, the music gets drowned out by the noise of the power

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn my audio up?

2011-11-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo! On my PC's audio, whilst playing CDs, with all volume settings maxed out, the volume can't be said to be louder than comfortable and sensible. In quiet passages, the music gets drowned out by the noise of the power

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn my audio up?

2011-11-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan Mackenzie writes: On my PC's audio, whilst playing CDs, with all volume settings maxed out, the volume can't be said to be louder than comfortable and sensible. In quiet passages, the music gets drowned out by the noise of the power supply. I know from plugging in my iPod that the

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn my audio up?

2011-11-03 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alex On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 07:16:53PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Alan Mackenzie writes: On my PC's audio, whilst playing CDs, with all volume settings maxed out, the volume can't be said to be louder than comfortable and sensible. In quiet passages, the music gets drowned out by

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn my audio up?

2011-11-03 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Paul. On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 12:58:16PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo! On my PC's audio, whilst playing CDs, with all volume settings maxed out, the volume can't be said to be louder than comfortable and

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn my audio up?

2011-11-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Alex On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 07:16:53PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: The ONE in alsamixer? I have at least PCM, Front and CD, another PC also has Master. Are you missing some of those? Is a channel muted (you see 'MM'

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn my audio up?

2011-11-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Could you suggest a good program to play MP3 files, please I use mplayer for one-off playing of files, or Amarok for managing my entire collection.