Very Low Sound

[rob_gf]

I have just installed Ubuntu 8.04 on an Everex Stepnote 1502. I have never used linux before, but I like what I see so far except I cannot hear any sounds. I have put the volume on the taskbar to max, the volume on the notebook to max, and neither works. I can hear a little sound when on Youtube, with the youtube volume at max. The audio worked fine while using vista yesterday.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks

[Michael.Godawski]

hi,

have a look at this general guide first:



https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting


then please post the result of this Terminal command:


sudo lshw -C multimedia

[rob_gf]

*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: VIA High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:04:01.0
version: 10
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 module=snd_hda_intel

[diablo75]

Double-click on that little speaker icon in your upper panel. Click on the Preferences button.

Check off all sound sources (e.g., "Front PCM", "Front", "Surround PCM", "Surround", "Center PCM" etc.). Basically anything that looks like it could produce sound.

Click OK.

After the sound levels have been added to your mixer, play with the new levels that have been added while playing some music in the background.

[habtool]

alsamixer -Dhw

[rob_gf]

Double-click on that little speaker icon in your upper panel. Click on the Preferences button.

Check off all sound sources (e.g., "Front PCM", "Front", "Surround PCM", "Surround", "Center PCM" etc.). Basically anything that looks like it could produce sound.

Click OK.

After the sound levels have been added to your mixer, play with the new levels that have been added while playing some music in the background.

I did that and it worked fine.....Thanks all for your help

[diablo75]

:) Slam dunk!

[deeflex]

alsamixer -Dhw

Thanks this helped me by raising the "Side" channel to max!