Low volume on Sony VAIO VGN-G11XN

[samsom]

Hi, I have recently installed Ubuntu 8.04 and have extremely low volume on my laptop. Everything is on high volume on Alsamixer and I have tried alternating between ALSA ans OSS to no avail.
I am a LInux newbie and am not sure what to try next. Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers

[jmadero]

open a terminal

sudo apt-get install alsamixergui

then go to applications-> Sound & Video (I believe) -> Alsamixergui

make sure everything is on and up

[samsom]

open a terminal

sudo apt-get install alsamixergui

then go to applications-> Sound & Video (I believe) -> Alsamixergui

make sure everything is on and up

Is that just a GUI version of alsamixer? Cos I have tried alsamixer from the terminal and everything is on max.

[jmadero]

It looks like this is a bug

Sound is too low in a Sony Vaio VGN-G11XN using Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy - LinuxQuestions.org


Please post the bug at launchpad.net. Include all of the details about OS, Alsa version, and you can toss in the link above as well.

[D-cat]

I'm working on the same problem with a similar card on another thread.

I think your alsamixer is controlling the PulseAudio soft-mixer and not your card's hardware mixer.

Try the alsamixer -c0 command and see if that helps. Also check the other thread.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...tu-8-10-a.html

[samsom]

Thanks for the replies. So does that mean that someday, it will be sorted when the next release comes along?

[jmadero]

what was the result of running

alsamixer -c0

from terminal?

I forgot that some cards do need the extra options to properly show all of your menus. I actually had to do it with mine after intrepid until I recompiled alsamixer from source with an extra patch that someone in the community provided.

[samsom]

HI, this is the output of alsamixer -c0. AS you can see, everything is at max.



┌──────────────────[AlsaMixer v1.0.15 (Press Escape to quit)]──────────────────┐
│ Card: HDA Intel │
│ Chip: Realtek ALC262 │
│ View: [Playback] Capture All │
│ Item: Master [dB gain=0.00] │
│ │
│ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │
│ ├──┤ ┌──┐ └──┘ ├──┤ ├──┤ └──┘ │
│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │
│ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ │
│ 100 100<>100 100<>100 100<>100 100<>100 │
│ < Master > Headphon PCM Front Mic Mic Boos │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────── ─────────────────────────────┘

[samsom]

what was the result of running

alsamixer -c0

from terminal?

I forgot that some cards do need the extra options to properly show all of your menus. I actually had to do it with mine after intrepid until I recompiled alsamixer from source with an extra patch that someone in the community provided.

I did not get any extra options though. I am not very computer savvy...so recompiling alsa is beyond me at my current level.

[D-cat]

Same man, diff chipset. This is a reported bug. There's a few potential solutions, this one I pulled off of launchpad:

By default, the alsa modules are installed without any options. Unfortunately, the intel-hda drivers now require options to specify which hardware versions to support, and ubuntu doesn't specify any of those options when compiling the alsa modules. Here's a way to fix it on your local machine until the package is fixed.

Add a line like this to /etc/alsa/alsa-source.conf:
ALSA_CARD_OPTIONS="hda-codec-<your hardware>"

Here are the possible options from the configure scripts:
hda-codec-realtek, hda-codec-analog, hda-codec-sigmatel, hda-codec-via, hda-codec-atihdmi, hda-codec-conexant, hda-codec-cmedia, hda-codec-si3054, hda-generic

Once that's done, run the following commands:
sudo aptitude install module-assistant
sudo m-a update
sudo m-a prepare
sudo m-a a-i alsa

An easy way to edit the file from the terminal is to run

sudo nano /etc/alsa/alsa-source.conf

Make your edit, then save by pressing [Ctrl + x] , y .