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jbob286
February 26th, 2007, 08:55 PM
I am running Ubuntu 6.10 on my macbook core duo. I have the sound mixer at maximum volume but the speakers are still very quiet. I do not have this problem in OS X. I have also had this problem in Fedora so I do not think it is unique to Ubuntu.

Any ideas? Thanks!
garlito
February 27th, 2007, 03:48 PM
I am running Ubuntu 6.10 on my macbook core duo. I have the sound mixer at maximum volume but the speakers are still very quiet. I do not have this problem in OS X. I have also had this problem in Fedora so I do not think it is unique to Ubuntu.

Any ideas? Thanks!

I've got the same problem with an intel mac mini. I installed Ubuntu a few days ago and I've just noticed that. I'm sill shocked because I read some reviews about linux in mactel before ordering one and neither of them talked about this kind of hardware problems. It's unusable for me in that way. :-(

I will try to find some information. Any mactel owner here?

Thanks.
johnw188
March 2nd, 2007, 02:01 PM
I am running Ubuntu 6.10 on my macbook core duo. I have the sound mixer at maximum volume but the speakers are still very quiet. I do not have this problem in OS X. I have also had this problem in Fedora so I do not think it is unique to Ubuntu.

Any ideas? Thanks!

By sound mixer, do you mean the little menubar dropdown volume control, or the actual mixer panel. I had these problems once; you have to go into alsa-mixer (I believe? alsamixer? something like that) and play around with the settings in there.
jbob286
March 2nd, 2007, 10:04 PM
alsamixer did the trick. Just ran it in the terminal and turned the volume to max for the 'Front'.

Why on earth is the actual system volume tucked away in some command line program?
johnw188
March 3rd, 2007, 12:43 AM
alsamixer did the trick. Just ran it in the terminal and turned the volume to max for the 'Front'.

Why on earth is the actual system volume tucked away in some command line program?

It really isn't. The easy to access volume control doesn't go to the absolute max of your soundcard, or you could damage your equipment. I assume whoever coded it made it stay within the constraints found in the alsamixer panel.
saxin
March 3rd, 2007, 09:18 AM
You can do this with GUI also. Just double-click the volumeicon and fix the settings :)
jbob286
March 3rd, 2007, 05:26 PM
No, you can't. No where in any GUI setting, be it the volume icon on the panel, or in the system sound settings, can you turn the volume all the way. The only way I could do it was in alsamixer.
garlito
March 4th, 2007, 08:31 AM
It really isn't. The easy to access volume control doesn't go to the absolute max of your soundcard, or you could damage your equipment. I assume whoever coded it made it stay within the constraints found in the alsamixer panel.

I did the same than jbob286 and the speakers sound high enough now, do you think it could be dangerous for the card? But why is so quiet?
garlito
March 4th, 2007, 11:41 AM
No, you can't. No where in any GUI setting, be it the volume icon on the panel, or in the system sound settings, can you turn the volume all the way. The only way I could do it was in alsamixer.

You can, go to the volume control (double click on the volume panel icon) and then in preferences select the tracks you want to appear, "front" in this case.

What confused me was the operative control in the mini is not PCM as I'm used to, but front.

You can do something similar with the volume in the panel, in preferences choose "front" as the track to be controlled.

Regards.