In Karmic, the physical volume control worked after installation with no tweak required. The volume is now at a good enough volume to be passable (i.e. watch a movie without headphones). It is certainly not as loud as it would be under Windows with the same hardware but I have learned that when something is good enough in Linux you take what you can get. TBH I probably won't risk 10.04 until at least 6 weeks have passed after the official release given the number of headaches that Koala came with.
On 15 March 2010 17:50, Brad Figg <[email protected]> wrote: > This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in > it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try > with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are > available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ . > > If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a > Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically > gather and attach updated debug information to this report. > > apport-collect -p alsa-base 402703 > > Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would > be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the > issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once > you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream- > testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon > next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and > deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your > results. > > Thanks in advance. > > ** Tags added: jaunty low-volume > > ** Changed in: alsa-driver (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > Jaunty Low Volume - Acer Aspire 5720 Notebook with ALC268 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/402703 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > With Ubuntu Intrepid the problem problem of low volume was eventually > sorted out, perhaps by a combination of days of experimenting on my part and > eventual system updates. The volume returned to what would be regarded as > "normal". I would have expected Jaunty to correctly identify and support an > Acer laptop with Intel chips but it has been a huge step backwards (don't > even start me on the Intel video problems!!!) > > With Ubunty Jaunty, not only has there been a regression, but it now even > the physical volume dial on the side of the laptop has stopped working. The > volume is so low that I have to have it near full just to use with > headphones. Without headphones it is almost impossible to hear anything. > > I have tried all of the things I tried with Intrepid but this time around > nothing seems to fix the issue. > - getting rid of pulse audio helped a little > - it is the same regardless of which kernel I use (2.6.28-14 through to > 2.6.30-xxxx). > - upgrading to Alsa 1.0.20 did not help at all (but didn't make it worse > either). > > I have no intention of going back to Intrepid but this is quite annoying > because I use my laptop for all my multimedia playback. It astounds me how > many issues there have been with Jaunty yet I have managed to overcome them > all except for the sound issues. This is not even a new problem. Many > popular audio chipsets seem to have low volume issues. > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/402703/+subscribe > -- David Scott, BSc BA TESOL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Live Messenger: [email protected] Gmail Chat: [email protected] http://picasaweb.google.com/slumbergod “Grass is yuk, eh!¨, NZ Yellow Pages TV ad. Please do not send jokes or online cards...you just give my email addresses to spammers!!! -- Jaunty Low Volume - Acer Aspire 5720 Notebook with ALC268 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/402703 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
