Bug 759956 - sound very low in volume, both analog output through speakers as well as USB Logitech headset on Compaq CQ40 after fresh install Fedora 16, requires alsactl to rerun always after boot and suspend
Summary: sound very low in volume, both analog output through speakers as well as USB ...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pulseaudio
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-05 01:23 UTC by Orca Lonsdale
Modified: 2013-02-13 16:20 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-02-13 16:20:46 UTC
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Description Orca Lonsdale 2011-12-05 01:23:30 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0

In sound settings choosing the appropriate devices and turning volume up doesn't work (was already at 100% on all of them). On refrenced URL someone suggested to install and use pavucontrol, which I did but only made things worse (no sound at all anymore).
Then I read the suggestion to run alsactl (-c2 for the headset), which showed 0% volume and made sound work again after turning up the volume.
Problem is, that "# alsactl init 0" doesn't solve the problem, and amixer -c2 shows 0% volume before running "# alsactrl -c2" and turning up volume.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start laptop
2. Plug in logitech headset or just using the speakers
3. Try to play a sound or to run skype
Actual Results:  
3. before installing pavucontrol: very low volume. After using pavucontrol only once: no more sound

Expected Results:  
Play sounds at an eligible level :)

[root@localhost tmp]# amixer -c2
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 44
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-41.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-41.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined cvolume cvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Capture channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 29 Capture 0 - 13
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-41.00dB] [off] Capture 13 [100%] [29.00dB] [on]
[root@localhost tmp]# alsamixer -c 2
[root@localhost tmp]# amixer -c2
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 44
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 40 [91%] [-1.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 40 [91%] [-1.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined cvolume cvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Capture channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 29 Capture 0 - 13
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-41.00dB] [off] Capture 13 [100%] [29.00dB] [on]

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