the sound is quieter than it should be

[Member drinkWine]

Possible to fix it ?
or
madeing the forced sound increase above the maximum ?

$ inxi -Fxx
System:    Host: antix2 Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.6.5 dm: SLiM 
           Distro: antiX-19.2.1_x64-base Hannie Schaft 29 March 2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: Presario CQ56 Notebook PC v: 059A110000202810010000100 
           serial: <root required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <root required> 
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1605 v: 90.17 serial: <root required> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: F.14 date: 02/01/2011 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0% condition: 47.3/47.3 Wh (100%) volts: 2.7/10.8 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary serial:   
           status: Unknown 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Celeron T3500 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn rev: A L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 8378 
           Speed: 2095 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2095 2: 2095 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           chip ID: 8086:2a42 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express v: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           chip ID: 8086:293e 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:   Device-1: Ralink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 port: 4000 
           bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 1814:3090 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: e0:2a:82:df:37:46 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard RTL810xE driver: r8169 
           v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8136 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 98:4b:e1:bd:cd:5e 
           Device-3: Ralink Motorola BC4 Bluetooth 3.0+HS Adapter type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 8-1:2 chip ID: 148f:1000 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 74.53 GiB used: 3.66 GiB (4.9%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST980811AS size: 74.53 GiB speed: 1.5 Gb/s serial: 3LY073Q7 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 13.48 GiB used: 3.66 GiB (27.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.95 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda4 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 65.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 153 Uptime: 1h 16m Memory: 1.89 GiB used: 749.5 MiB (38.7%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 
           default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 running in: roxterm inxi: 3.0.36 

[Member sybok]

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Hi, not quite sure what do you use to set up your sound (alsamixer [default] or pulseaudio).

Run
alsamixer
in the terminal/console, increase the two channels:
– Master
and if it does not help, increase also the
– Pre-Amp

[Member drinkWine]

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Master already was on maximum
yes, I increase Pre-Amp to 85 and it looks like better, the sound got louder

and there are extraneous noises in the sound, on the same laptop volume and quality in Win7 more better

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by drinkWine.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by drinkWine.

[Member sybok]

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Yes, I have experienced the noises as well; I suspect that this was (probably) due to increasing the Pre-Amp.
In order to be fair, I have integrated speakers in my old monitor, i.e. the quality of the HW is rather low.

An alternative is to resort to PulseAudio + Pavucontrol.
I believe that this has allowed me to get a slightly better sound or I have stopped taking care.
Sorry I cannot help more. 🙁

[Member ex_Koo]

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Have you tried your keyboard media keys fn + f10 f9
Try playing sound and reduce Pre-amp until the noise stops.

[Member Xecure]

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Try using pulseaudio as suggested by sybok. You should be able to go over 100% volume.
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/have-sound-in-firefox-no-sound-in-seamonkey/page/2/#post-34378

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[Member drinkWine]

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yes, it helps, all fine

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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What was the solution? It might help others.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

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[Member drinkWine]

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Solution was how Xecure told, by him links.
Now volume is fine

[Member ex_Koo]

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I only use alsa have never had trouble with sound either onboard or usb dac, that includes MX linux and Debian too. Maybe i’m just lucky.

[Member ModdIt]

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My experience is same as koo.
I wonder if some individual devices are pretty special regarding sound output. I have no experience of issues with
the quoted Intel 82801I HD Audio which is in several of our kids computers.

Since adding
.asound.conf in home, standard content as below to our master stick no sound issues encountered on a wild variwety of laptop and desktop devices. If other cards or outputs were required pointing to the correct device worked as it should.
Browsers in the usergroup are: Palemoon, Firefox LTS, Quantum, Tor, Opera, , Slimjet, Netsurf, Badwolf. Maybe others, listed in order of popularity. Badwolf is last because we have been unable to compile latest version..

.asound.conf content
#Substitute N with a small integer, 0 for your first sound card (which is the default),
#1 for your second, and so on.

pcm.!default {
type hw
card 0
}

ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
}

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