From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RM2TE-0001gQ-ET for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:57:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D2B821C0DD; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 18:56:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47B421C0BF for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 18:55:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 48616 invoked by uid 3782); 3 Nov 2011 18:55:16 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951A0E2.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.160.226]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:55:15 +0100 Received: (qmail 3607 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Nov 2011 18:50:13 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 18:50:13 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I turn my audio up? Message-ID: <20111103185013.GC2788@acm.acm> References: <20111103172622.GA2788@acm.acm> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 9c4fb832-f00d-43d8-b362-d3f985089dc8 X-Archives-Hash: f36a8aa1f20bf3cef728520d00c3b3ac 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 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 pow= er > > supply. =A0I know from plugging in my iPod that the loudspeakers are > > capable of much more. > > The three volume controls up at full are (i) the one in aqualung; (ii= ) > > the one in alsamixer; (iii) the physical control on the right speaker= . > > Surely I can get more volume, somehow. =A0Could somebody please sugge= st > > how. =A0TIA > How are you playing the CDs? > I think there are 2 basic ways, either software (reading the data from > the disc and playing it), or via line-in (software simply issues > "play" command to the drive which outputs via the audio cable, or some > drives even have audio controls on the front panel). The CD is being read as data and converted to something which is fed to the sound chip. > If the former, the volume should be the same as if you play an MP3, for= example. Could you suggest a good program to play MP3 files, please > If the latter, maybe you need to find the inputs in alsamixer and > boost them, if possible. Yes, one of my alsamixer controls was too low. --=20 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).