Low volume on ICH3

Please attach the output from ``amixer''.

Dino, can you please test with an Edgy beta live cd, and see if you still have this issue?

Scrive Tormod Volden <email address hidden>:

> Dino, can you please test with an Edgy beta live cd, and see if you
> still have this issue?
Unfortunaly i can't, i havn't a good internet connection.

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I suggest you go through all mixer settings. In Volume Control, go to Preferences to make all tracks visible, then turn everything up. You can also try "alsamixer" from the command line.

I hope you at least can get a cd and try Ubuntu 6.10 when it's released.

Hi there,

I had the same issue with Ubuntu 6.06 and waited Edgy to confirm.. Unfortunately same issue..

Issue on a Toshiba Satellite L100.
A friend has a similar laptop in the L100 range and doesn't have the issue.

alsamixer is reporting a generic chipset on my machine, but a realtek chipset on his.

Same problem under Fedora Core 5

Quoting seb <email address hidden>:

> Hi there,
>
> I had the same issue with Ubuntu 6.06 and waited Edgy to confirm..
> Unfortunately same issue..
>
I confirm the issue with Edgy :( anyway i can hear clearly question.wav from gdm
before login, after that it's hearable only with headphones.

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Hi Dino,

My low volume issue affects gdm as well.

Seb

Dino, is this when using the live CD/clean install or on a ungraded system? If the sound changes after logging in, it could be faulty user settings, or problems with esd, the sound daemon used by gnome.

Quoting Tormod Volden <email address hidden>:

> Dino, is this when using the live CD/clean install or on a ungraded
> system? If the sound changes after logging in, it could be faulty user
> settings, or problems with esd, the sound daemon used by gnome.
It's a clean install. Esd is off and i haven't a .asoundrc file, i don't think
it's a kernel problem.

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Try for instance logging in to a Failsafe X session, and run "aplay /usr/share/sounds/question.wav" from there.

I am less sure Dino and Sebastion have the same bug, since Dino's sound is ok until login.

Sebastian's bug -- orthogonal to the one in this bug report since his hardware uses both a different dsp and a different codec -- at least from the driver side is fixed in alsa-driver 1.0.13. The patches were sent to kernel-team@ in early October.

I suspect Dino's issue, which may also affect Sebastian, lies in post-session-restore for whatever desktop environment is being used.

What desktop environment(s) is(are) being used? There was formerly an issue with 6.06 where Xfce's mixer did interesting things.

(Apologies for misspelling Sebastien.)

Quoting Daniel T Chen <email address hidden>:

> Sebastian's bug -- orthogonal to the one in this bug report since his
> hardware uses both a different dsp and a different codec -- at least
> from the driver side is fixed in alsa-driver 1.0.13. The patches were
> sent to kernel-team@ in early October.
>
> I suspect Dino's issue, which may also affect Sebastian, lies in post-
> session-restore for whatever desktop environment is being used.
>
> What desktop environment(s) is(are) being used? There was formerly an
> issue with 6.06 where Xfce's mixer did interesting things.
I've tried gnome,xfce and wmaker

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Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 alpha?

Quoting Daniel T Chen <email address hidden>:

> Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 alpha?
I don't know, i have no more that notebook, sorry.

bye,
   Dino

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> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: alsa-utils => linux
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
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I have experienced this issue with any ICH chipset. The main speaker volume is barely audible from 2m away under any linux distro but it sounds like a disco under windows. All outputs are set to 100% on amix and the problem is desktop-independent. I believe it all started with the 2.6 kernels and ALSA so I suspect it is a driver problem. I am now using jaunty, by the way, but I have been exeriencing this problem for a long time.

Luis,
This bug was filed aegainst an old, no longer supported kernel. The sound subsystem has undergone significant change since that time. Please follow the directions below and file a new bug and include your specific hardware and release information if you continue to have a sound problem.

Can you also confirm this issue exists with the most recent Karmic Koala 9.10 Alpha release? ISO CD images are available at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/ . If the issue remains with Karmic it would be great to then also test the latest upstream mainline kernel available. This will allow additional upstream developers to examine this issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Thanks in advance.