Public bug reported:
I'm running a version of Dapper that's fully patched as of 12 June 2006
evening EST.
>From the perspective of a regular, non-super-techie user, my laptop has
a problem where the speakers, even when volume is maxed out, are too
quiet. Here's the deal:
I played a DVD on my laptop (HP dv4150, which is a variation of dv4000
model). I was using Kaffeine (xine backend) and the Gnome desktop.
I had Kaffeine's volume slider maxed, and the Gnome "Volume Applet
2.14.1" volumes maxed, but I was still thinking that the sound coming
from the laptop was too quiet to be useful.
Suspicious, I went to the command line and launcherd alsamixer. I found
that the PCM volume was low, maybe in the 60-70% range (I forget the
actual number). When I moved it up to 90-100%, the laptop's speakers
were just as loud as I wanted, and I perceived no distortion.
The problem is this: It's only because I'm a cmd-line geek that I knew
to check alsamixer. AFAIK, a regular Dapper user, of the ilk that
Canonical is trying to get to use Dapper, wouldn't have known to do this
fix. From all indications of the GUI, there are exactly two places
where volume is controlled: the application, and a system-wide volume
controlled by the Volume Applet.
** Affects: gnome-applets (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist
Status: Unconfirmed
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Missing PCM volume control limits laptop sound volume
https://launchpad.net/bugs/49607
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