<head><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</style></head><body id="compText">I'd check the list of Hardy bugs before assuming that it's something you can fix. There are lots of Hardy sound bugs. Then maybe you may want to file another bug. <br>I use Sound Capture to run Dragon NaturallySpeaking through WINE, and have found incoming sound to be low and weak, and vastly inferior to what I was getting with an older computer with a different sound card, and pre-Hardy distros. <br>hda-intel cards may be the worst, and that's what I have.<br>ALC861VD<br>Susan Cragin<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px;">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt@gmail.com>
<br>Sent: Jun 6, 2008 2:15 AM
<br>To: linux-audio-user <linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org>
<br>Subject: [LAU] Low sound problem under Hardy only (not Gutsy)
<br><br>hi <br><br>I am running 32 bit Hardy (GNOME) on a machine I call the TeraByte Beast (tbb), but the
sound is misbehaving. It is playing very low, despite the fact that I
have turned up the volume on both the applications that are playing
sound, as well as the system sound in the upper right had corner. I can play commercial music CDs and YouTube but I cannot play my own footage
with either vlc, movie player (Totem), Mplayer, Kino, Kaffeine, or
Firefox streaming the footage from the Internet Archive. When I do
attempt to play a video, the sound is once again very low on just my
own footage (.ogg and .mpg) under those six movie players. Here is a
sample of the footage that I am talking about. Left click on the first
link on the left under play / download:<br><br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv034_01_heather_baker_002.ogg">http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv034_01_heather_baker_002.ogg</a><br>
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I am able to hear that footage well when I watch that footage on my
hard drive under Gutsy or stream it from the Archive under Gutsy, but I
am not able to hear it well under Hardy. The volume is low under Hardy.
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I have tried running the sound test in System > Preferences >
sound, and that works okay for three of the four tests there: Sound
events > Sound playback; Music and Movies > Sound playback; Audio
Conferencing > Sound playback; but the test for Audio Conferencing
> Sound capture does not work at all. All of the fields there are set for alsa. <br><br>I have tried installing gnome-alsamixer and alsamixergui as recommended in this thread:<br><br><a target="_blank" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5125954&posted=1#post5125954">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5125954&posted=1#post5125954</a><br>
<br>Two days ago, I updated Hardy, and that solved the problem. Then, the problem spontaneously returned. I tried applying today's Hardy update, but that did not work. <br><br>
Sound capture is currently set for ALSA, and the Default Mixer Tracks is set for HDA ATI SB.<br>
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The output of<br>
<br>
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/also-base <br><br>is here:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://pastebin.ca/1039186" target="_blank">http://pastebin.ca/1039186</a><br>
<br>
The output of cat /proc/asound/version is here:<br>
<br>
cje@tbb:~$ cat /proc/asound/version<br>
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version <a target="_blank" href="http://1.0.16.">1.0.16.</a><br>
Compiled on May 6 2008 for kernel 2.6.24-17-rt (SMP).<br>
cje@tbb:~$<br clear="all"><br>Thanks in advance for any help. <br><br>see ya<br><br>-- <br>Christian Einfeldt,<br>Producer, The Digital Tipping Point
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