Too low volume in fully updated karmic installation

[Onkar Shinde]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

Since the 0.9.16 prerelease of pulseaudio in karmic, I get very low volume in speakers. This is the case even when the volume button on speaker is at 100%. Also the volume level set in the panel is 100%.
In jaunty I never had to set the volume in speakers at 100%. 50% was more than sufficient.
The issue is observed when using rhythmbox, totem, moovida, VLC. VLC gives most loud volume of the four but even that is not very audible for more than 5 feet distance.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: onkar 2568 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'V8237'/'VIA 8237 with ALC658D at 0xe000, irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC658D'
   Components : 'AC97a:414c4781'
   Controls : 45
   Simple ctrls : 31
CurrentDmesg:
 [ 43.156038] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
 [ 45.726457] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
 [ 45.726466] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
 [ 45.902057] Bridge firewalling registered
Date: Thu Sep 17 00:32:18 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.17-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IN.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32-generic
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686

[323232 (323232)]

Confirmed on a fully updated Karmic installation with pulseaudio 1:0.9.17-0ubuntu1

[323232 (323232)]

Oeps; installed alsamixer and gave pcm a blast and everything is working! So not confirmed

[rictec (rictec)]

Sound is too low

[perriman (chuchiperriman)]

It has been fixed on my Packard Bell Dot netbook with karmic beta1

[cuby (cuby)]

All sound is to low. Motherboard asus p5b-v with HD audio ADI ad1988.

[fuhrysteve (fuhrysteve)]

Might want to try System => Preferences => Sound => Hardware => Profile => Analog Surround 4.0 Output (or something else). I only have 2x speakers, but for some reason the settings that seem to be designed for that give me little to no sound.

[cuby (cuby)]

Thanks for the tip. I've tried if, but it didn't work.

[PJD (pdoucet)]

i had the same problem. i installed gnome-alsamixer and turn a volume that was set very low up and it fixed my problem.

[Johan Walles (walles)]

PJD, thanks for the workaround, it helped me!

After I had turned "Master F" up, I got all the sound I wanted.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

@PJD @Johan Walles
Will both of you please file separate bug reports so that we can see
your hw and mixer info? "ubuntu-bug alsa-base" in a Terminal should do
the trick.

[Johan Walles (walles)]

Daniel, I just filed separate bug 479809 about this according to your instructions.

[hartown (hartown)]

PJD i installed gnome-alsamixer and Jojan Walles I turned up Master F and it worked fine
elhartown

[JohnSage (jpsageusa)]

Just feedback from another user. When I switched motherboards, alsamixer master got turned down and so very low audio out. First I called command line alsamixer and used the master audio to get volume out. I then added gnome-alsamixer as an applet on my task bar. If alsamixer can effect the final audio output it should be part of the preferences->Sound applet or better yet there should be a gnome-sound applet that controls alsamixer and pulseaudio.

John

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) reached end-of-life on April 30, 2011.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please upgrade to the latest version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pulseaudio (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]