improving sound

[norman]

> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:36 PM, norman <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> > I would like to improve both the volume and quality of sound from my
> > Inspiron 1525 and still be able to carry the machine around with me. Is
> > it possible to achieve this, please? I am running Ubuntu 8.04.
> 
> Hi Norman,
> 
> On my Dell Vostro 1500 sound was working "out of the box", but not
> very well.  In my case, some of the sound channels were "hidden" and
> turned down.  There are two ways around this (that I know of):
> 
> The GUI way (in Gnome)
> 1. Double-click the volume-slider applet in the panel
> 2. Select Edit->Preferences
> 3. Turn on some of the unchecked channels (for me it was either PCM or
> Front - don't remember)
> 4. Close the dialog, then crank up the volume on the extra channels
> 
> The TUI way
> 1. Open a terminal and type 'alsamixer' and press enter
> 2. Scroll to the left and right with arrow keys, increase volume with
> up/down arrow keys.  Keep going all the way past the right-most -
> sometimes there are even more channels.
> 
> If that doesn't work, we probably need to know what sound card you
> have.  Type 'lspci' in a terminal and paste the output back here.

Thank you, I tried your suggestion and the volume improved.

Norman