Guest Teiresias Posted June 1, 2005 Report Share Posted June 1, 2005 (edited) I've a problem. When I try to play sound it's very low even though the alsamixer is all boosted up. Cannot say if I've installed some thing that f**ked the sound up, it used to work. My configuration is: Mandrake 10.1 official kernel version : 2.6.8.1-12mdk Alsa-utils : 1.0.8 libalsa2: 1.0.8 Anything else ?? Hope that somebody have some idea how to solve my problem Thanks Nicolaj Edited June 1, 2005 by Teiresias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted June 1, 2005 Report Share Posted June 1, 2005 Open up all alsamixer channels (PCM :) ). If that doesn't work close every channel and open up one at the time. Could be that the default master channel is not the one you're listening to. Or if that doesn't help sometimes an application keeps control of sound. Open every audio application (try real player first) you use and hike up the volume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Teiresias Posted June 1, 2005 Report Share Posted June 1, 2005 I've tried to close and open all channels no change. And it's the same no matter which player I used (mpg321, xmms, mplayer etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted June 1, 2005 Report Share Posted June 1, 2005 Try reloading the driver. Open the MCC, hardware, hardware. Select the souncard, configure, load different module, load default module again (go to system, services to check if alsa is running) and try again. (do this with all audio applications closed, including kmix in the systray) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Teiresias Posted June 1, 2005 Report Share Posted June 1, 2005 Tried to load different modules, and reload the intel8x0 modules, same result. Currently trying to install the new alsa driver version 1.0.9. Hoping that this will take care of my problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted June 1, 2005 Report Share Posted June 1, 2005 Perhaps the speakers have a volume knob? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Teiresias Posted June 1, 2005 Report Share Posted June 1, 2005 Sort of. The laptop (IBM R31) have tree buttons for volume control. They do not work, except the mute button, and if the sound is muted it will not show in the alsamixer. ;-) So now there are lots of sound. Typical, never start with the obvious solutions ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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coverup Posted June 1, 2005 Report Share Posted June 1, 2005 Sort of. The laptop (IBM R31) have tree buttons for volume control. They do not work, except the mute button, and if the sound is muted it will not show in the alsamixer. ;-) So now there are lots of sound. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> On my T41, all three buttons work perfectly under 9.2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Teiresias Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 Do you have somthing install to catch the events when pressing the buttons ? Or is the bios just better on the T model ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 (edited) Do you have somthing install to catch the events when pressing the buttons ? Or is the bios just better on the T model ?? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, I didn't do anything... Only keys that don't work are Fn+F5 (WiFi On/Off), Fn+F7 and Fn+F12 (?) - Hybernate. I do load thinkpad modules which I found under 3rd party in the kernel dir. I guess they have something to do with power management, but frankly I don't see any difference... Edit: you may want to look at the tpb (ThinkPad buttons) project and search linux-thinkpad mailing list. Edited June 3, 2005 by coverup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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