sound weak on 9.04 after update, barely audible

[schilde]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs

No idea what my exact driver should be but something went wrong in the transition from 8.10 to 9.04, suddenly no sound or it is very weak in general even connected to another amplifier.

[Gabe Gorelick (gabegorelick)]

I had the same problem, but it turned out that Jaunty had just lowered the volume on the "PCM" and "Front" channels, which messed everything up. Did you try using alsamixer and upping the volume on whatever seems too low?

[schilde (schildem)]

this, actually wasn't the problem. I already checked all those levels. I just wiped my hard drive and went back to the older version. Thanks though!

--- On Mon, 4/27/09, Gabe Gorelick <email address hidden> wrote:
From: Gabe Gorelick <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 367374] Re: sound weak on 9.04 after update, barely audible
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Monday, April 27, 2009, 4:37 AM

I had the same problem, but it turned out that Jaunty had just lowered
the volume on the "PCM" and "Front" channels, which messed
everything
up. Did you try using alsamixer and upping the volume on whatever seems
too low?

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sound weak on 9.04 after update, barely audible
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Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs

No idea what my exact driver should be but something went wrong in the
transition from 8.10 to 9.04, suddenly no sound or it is very weak in general
even connected to another amplifier.

[Jake121 (draska-wolf121)]

Had the same issue with 9.04 even with all sound levels maxed out couldn't even hear a whisper. Tried to get the latest NVidia driver but never could get it to install. Went back to 8.04 and got my sound back, slightly disappointed though, I liked everything else about 9.04.

Anyone with any thoughts?

[Shane Fagan (shanepatrickfagan)]

Thank you for taking the time to make ubuntu better.
Your bug doesnt seem to effect ubuntu-docs so im changing the package that this bug effects to pulse audio.

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Have you checked the volume control in the top panel to ensure the sound is not muted and is turned up?

 affects ubuntu/pulseaudio
 status incomplete

[Jagmax (wateranimal)]

We have this problem on various machines.

Everyone says the same thing but nothing works. It's always......check your PCM?......install ALSA mixer?.....(Yeah, like ALSA mixer is the cure all.) Or it's; Did you install this?.....can you run this command and post that?.....pulse audio controls?.....yada.....yada.....yada. The results are the same for HP, Dell, Clevo, Acer.... you name it but the results are the same, NOTHING; or so minimal as to be joke worthy.

Ubuntu's sound is so weak that any cell phone speaker beats the hell out of it.

Jaunty sound is simply screwed up. We're all so sick of this.

[Andreas F (aff)]

I had the same issue on Karmic (sound being barely audible). Using 'alsamixer' to increase the PCM level (initially set to 0) fixed the problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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