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gnome-media package

sound settings

Asked by blackhole

Hi,

can someone explain to me what all the different columns in gnome-volume-control are? I was playing around with them because I could not hear any mic recordings I made (I know there are several threads opened about this but none of them have helped me)... what are front, front mic and front mic boost? when I set the volume of front on maximum I get white noise... I also typed in alsamixer in terminal like some people have suggested but that didn't help me because I don't know what any of the columns are for... can someone help me out by at least telling me what the ideal settings for all the columns are in order to record and listen to audio? and do these settings effect everything or only the audio recorder? do they affect the audio quality of a music cd I play?

would appreciate any info!

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blackhole (ramich87) said : 		#1

I'm using the newest ubuntu by the way... gutsy gibbon

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Clóvis Fabrício (nosklo) said : 		#2

Those columns vary from each sound card and are not the same in every computer.

Give more information about your hardware, is it a laptop, which model, which sound card you have?

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blackhole (ramich87) said : 		#3

I'm using an acer aspire 5610 laptop... I'm not sure which sound card I have though I don't know how to check.

I can tell you what the different columns are though and they are: PCM, Front, front mic, front mic boost, surround, center, LFE, side, line-in, cd, microfon, mic boost, pc-speakers.

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Grizz (g-garibay) said : 		#4

I'm having the same problem. I downloaded Ubuntu 7.10 onto my external hard drive. Not able to get any sound. I played around w/ everything and nothing. I have Harmon/ Kardon speakers, there connect to the USB.

I downloaded Real Player 10 to see if it would help. Nothing no sound at all from the music videos and stuff.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

Try to install the latest Alsa may resolve your issue

Open a terminal and type:
sudo -i
give your user password, you don't see nothing when type it, then press enter

apt-get update
apt-get install wget build-essential ncurses-dev libncurses5-dev gettext linux-headers-$(uname -r)
mkdir /usr/src/alsa-source
cd /usr/src/alsa-source
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.15.tar.bz2
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.15.tar.bz2
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/alsa-utils-1.0.15.tar.bz2
tar xjf alsa-driver-1.0.15.tar.bz2
tar xjf alsa-lib-1.0.15.tar.bz2
tar xjf alsa-utils-1.0.15.tar.bz2

cd alsa-driver-1.0.15
./configure --with-cards=hda-intel
make
make install

cd alsa-lib-1.0.15
./configure
make
make install

cd alsa-utils-1.0.15
./configure
make
make install

Then open the file
nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

and change the model options:
options snd-hda-intel model=acer

Reboot your pc

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More reference at page:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto

Hope this Help

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