Bug 479492 - Faint sound and and headphones problem
Summary: Faint sound and and headphones problem
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pulseaudio
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-01-10 00:21 UTC by Mark Patton
Modified: 2009-01-12 17:16 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-01-10 23:04:37 UTC
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Description Mark Patton 2009-01-10 00:21:17 UTC
Description of problem:

The sound Fedora 10 outputs to the speakers is very faint. I can get up to barely usable volume only by maxing out every slider (after turning them all on) in volume control. Strangely I couldn't hear anything at all until I also maxed out the side channel.

Also, plugging in headphones does not mute the speaker as it should.

These problems were not present in Fedora 9.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

uname -a
Linux tyr.ragnarok 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 15:12:04 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

rpm -q pulseaudio alsa-lib
pulseaudio-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386
alsa-lib-1.0.18-6.rc3.fc10.i386

How reproducible:

Very.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot the computer.
2. Run rhthymbox
3. Listen to music
  
Actual results:

Music faint even with all volume levels maxed out.

Expected results:

Normal control over music volume.

Additional info:


Sound card:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Holco Enterprise Co, Ltd/Shuttle Computer Device 3111
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
	Memory at fdff4000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfdff4000 irq 22

Comment 1 Mark Patton 2009-01-10 23:04:37 UTC
Mea culpa. I hadn't noticed there are two analog outputs and must have switched them when I installed Fedora 10. I guess one is center and the other is a side channel. Switching my to the other analog output fixed all my problems.

Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2009-01-12 17:16:15 UTC
Closing then. 

Hopefully in one of the versions of Fedora we will have a more complete mixer default initialization database which will set these things up correctly by default.


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