Sound is very low

[blippy]

Hi, I've put Ibex on my Mactel. The sound is very quiet, despite the fact that I have the volume meter on the gnome panel and Totem turned up to the max. If I play Aesop's Fables, for example, the volume is very low. It's a problem with all audio files. Sound is not a problem in OS X.

Any ideas?

[blippy]

Hi, I've put Ibex on my Mactel. The sound is very quiet, despite the fact that I have the volume meter on the gnome panel and Totem turned up to the max.

I installed Gnome Alsa Mixer, started it, and moved the Front and PCM volume control to maximum. That helps.

[logos34]

yeah, the separate PCM volume level causes more confusion

[Rog-Mahal]

I've also found that keeping the volume level in OS X around 40-50% and then rebooting into Ubuntu also makes a difference. Making it higher than that can produce an annoying crackling sound in the left speaker.

[logos34]

I've also found that keeping the volume level in OS X around 40-50% and then rebooting into Ubuntu also makes a difference. Making it higher than that can produce an annoying crackling sound in the left speaker.

+1

a lot of complaints about crackling/distortion could be solved by simply lowering the PCM level from max (the threshold on mine is 84% before I start getting noise on the higher freqs/pitches)