Sound config settings/files?

[Hazan Pérez]

Hello,

Right now, and for a while, I'm using US 12.10, great distro but a bit
overkill for what I actually do (I work with images, not sound), but so
far the only one that makes the sound in this machine work good. I'll
try to explain.

When I move the volume slider, the one in the panel, it changes the
volume in the right scale, that is quiet when low, loud when its nearly
full, but if I use another desktop environment, right now I'm using
cinnamon, the slider doesn't works right - only a portion in the middle
of the slider changes the volume, and it's not so soft. For example, the
volume stays the same from 5% to 45%, then it gets very loud (the
loudest my speakers can get) at 60% and then it stays like that until
100%, making the difference of volume in that section very noticeable,
and also making using the scroll wheel on the icon or using the
vol+/vol- buttons in my keyboard not that usable. A bit hard to explain...

I've tested many other distros and they all have the same problem,
except this version of US (haven't tested the last one). This sound
config is dependent on the desktop environment so I was wondering what
configs were made for US that do make the sound work like this.

This is a desktop PC, I'll add the output from lspci in case that helps

hapk at twisto:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge
(ext gfx port 0)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge
(PCIE port 2)
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [IDE mode]
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0 USB
OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0 USB
OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 SMBus
Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia
(Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 PCI to
PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor
Link Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
Juniper LE [Radeon HD 6700 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Juniper HDMI
Audio [Radeon HD 5700 Series]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)


I hope someone can help me with this.

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Hazan Pérez C.
Twisto Creative