Created attachment 342089 [details] alsa-info.txt Even after turning up the new volume control all the way, and the control on Totem, music is still incredibly quiet on the built-in speakers. It's listenable on headphones, but won't get very loud -- pleasant in a quiet room, but unusable in any louder environment. The volume control applet doesn't even appear to change volume anywhere, on built-in speakers or headphones. Attaching /tmp/alsa-info.txt, and amixer before and after states, and setting this to block AlsaVolume.
Created attachment 342090 [details] "Before" state on alsamixer (after 'alsactl init') Initial ALSA state for HDA Intel sound controller, PCI ID 8086:284b
Created attachment 342091 [details] "After" state on alsamixer Fixed ALSA state for HDA Intel sound controller, PCI ID 8086:284b
Created attachment 342140 [details] New "after" state on alsamixer Realized the previous version (1) was too quiet in headphones, and (2) leaves the second headphone jack still non-functional. This laptop has a dual headphone jack; both jacks turn off the laptop's built-in speakers as expected, but the second jack doesn't work by default without running the alsamixer and unmuting it, which I've done.
diff is this: --- a 2009-05-05 17:59:53.000000000 +0200 +++ b 2009-05-05 18:00:04.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,30 +1,30 @@ Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 127 - Mono: Playback 100 [79%] [-20.25dB] [on] + Mono: Playback 127 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 127 Mono: - Front Left: Playback 100 [79%] [-20.25dB] [on] - Front Right: Playback 100 [79%] [-20.25dB] [on] + Front Left: Playback 127 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] + Front Right: Playback 127 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Headphone2',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 127 Mono: - Front Left: Playback 127 [100%] [0.00dB] [off] - Front Right: Playback 127 [100%] [0.00dB] [off] + Front Left: Playback 127 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] + Front Right: Playback 127 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Mono: - Front Left: Playback 155 [61%] [-20.00dB] - Front Right: Playback 155 [61%] [-20.00dB] + Front Left: Playback 225 [88%] [-6.00dB] + Front Right: Playback 225 [88%] [-6.00dB] Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] @@ -101,6 +101,6 @@ Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 127 Mono: - Front Left: Playback 100 [79%] [-20.25dB] [on] - Front Right: Playback 100 [79%] [-20.25dB] [on] + Front Left: Playback 127 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] + Front Right: Playback 127 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] This is probably a good candidate for inclusion in the alsa db.
Jaroslav, was this one done in 1.0.20?
The alsa-utils-1.0.20-3 package should fix this issue. Reopen this bug if the problem persist.