There is the continuing problem of built-in speakers on laptops being too quiet when running Linux. I managed to fix this with something in /etc/asound.conf and an extra mate-volume-control applet added to the panel. With this extra volume control, I was able to turn the audio far past 100% and even past 153%. The laptop I'm working on needed to be wiped and the OS reinstalled. Unfortunately I neglected to save or write down what I did to implement this volume control tweak.
Before I discovered this, I used /etc/asound.conf (or ~/.asoundrc) to add a "Pre-Amp" slider to Alsa. This raises up the low end such that the really quiet audio stuff is loud enough. I'm not sure if that had anything to do with the volume control tweak.
Would someone please help me with figuring out what I could have possibly done to make MATE's audio control applet to go as far past 100% as I cared to raise it?
-- David Griffith d...@661.org
