volume issues

[josinc]

i switched over to linux and at full volume, its like 5% of the windows volume, what can i do to fix this?

[bigtomrodney]

Check all of your levels are up, particularly PCM. If you open your sound mixer by double-clicking on the volume icon (or right clicking and selecting mixer) you should be able to turn PCM and if applicable Front up to balance you volume.

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome.
Try looking in the system menu for an app with a name like Mixer, Gnome mixer, Kmix,...try one of those and see how it goes.

[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!

The suggestions from BigTom and Mike should fix you up. But if not, run alsamixer as root and make sure the levels are maxed there, as well.

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome!

The suggestions from BigTom and Mike should fix you up. But if not, run alsamixer as root and make sure the levels are maxed there, as well.

Hiya BTR and Jay!
I like using alsamixer myself but it seems like it isn't installed on some distros, that's why I try getting it to work through the Menu first. Sheesh, I need to dust off my DVD burner and touch up on my Ubuntu skills. I'm getting virtually fat and lazy with Gentoo

[josinc]

none of the above is working!

[jayd512]

Is this Fedora 10?
What sound card do you have?

lspci | grep Audio

[josinc]

[root@localhost ~]# lspci | grep audio
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

its fedora 11

[MikeTbob]

Try this code, I'm not sure it will work but it's worth a shot.
Needs to be run as root.

system-config-soundcard

[jayd512]

Try this code, I'm not sure it will work but it's worth a shot.
Needs to be run as root.

system-config-soundcard

I haven't tried 11 yet, but that command doesn't do anything in 10.

@osinc,
When you opened up the volume-control did you make sure to check Master, Front and PCM? Are they all maxxed out?