Sound is horribly quiet in Karmic on Eee 1000HE

[Thomas Horsten]

The volume hotkeys don't work very well (it takes forever to move 1 notch and "buffers" the key presses), takes about 30 seconds to even get to max. volume, and even on the highest setting the volume is very low.

I've maxed out sound in gnome-alsamixer and the volume control applet and it's still very quiet. It's impossible to watch TV or videos.

Someone in IRC on #ubuntu+1 pointed me to "paman" which allows me to adjust the volume higher than 100%, this "sort of" makes it usable but also distorts the sound.

This worked perfectly in Jaunty and it also works perfectly in Windows.

th@eee:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

th@eee:~$ dpkg -l pulseaudio linux-image
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii linux-image 2.6.31.4.15 Generic Linux kernel image.
ii pulseaudio 1:0.9.15-4ubuntu3 PulseAudio sound server

th@eee:~$ lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

th@eee:~$ lspci -vn -s 00:1b.0
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 02)
 Subsystem: 1043:834a
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
 Memory at f7eb8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
 Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

[Thomas Horsten (thomas-horsten)]

I just noticed something with alsactl although I don't know if it's the cause of the problem I can't rule it out:

th@eee:~$ alsactl init 0
Unknown hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Realtek ALC269" "HDA:10ec0269,1043834a,00100004" "0x1043" "0x834a"
Hardware is initialized using a guess method

[Thomas Horsten (thomas-horsten)]

The problem is no longer there with latest Karmic updates.

[numer51397 (numer51397)]

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala UNR beta (downloaded yersterday from ubuntu.com)

there's NO SOUND on Asus EEEPC 1000HA

logs:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l pulseaudio linux-image*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un linux-image <none> (no description available)
un linux-image-2. <none> (no description available)
ii linux-image-2. 2.6.31-11.36 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.31 on x86
ii linux-image-ge 2.6.31.11.22 Generic Linux kernel image
ii pulseaudio 1:0.9.18-0ubun PulseAudio sound server
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci -vn -s 00:1b.0
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 02)
 Subsystem: 1043:831a
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
 Memory at f7eb8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
 Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

and:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ alsactl init 0
Unknown hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Realtek ALC269" "HDA:10ec0269,1043831a,00100004" "0x1043" "0x831a"
Hardware is initialized using a guess method
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$