#1 2017-11-04 02:35:28

joes

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Need help with sound: poor quality and low volume

Have Asus Prime B250 Motherboard, and Intel i3-7100 processor.
I am having trouble with sound: not good and low volume.

Pulse audio:
Configuration: Built-in audio: Analog stereo duplex

Thanks,

Joe

ohnonot

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Re: Need help with sound: poor quality and low volume

I am having trouble with sound: not good and low volume.

Pulse audio:
Configuration: Built-in audio: Analog stereo duplex

technically that sounds about correct.
please feel free to add more information if you disagree.

now comes the rant:
most proprietary operating systems add post-processing to outgoing audio, which results in perceived higher volume & fullness of sound.
Linux does not do this by default.
so just crank up the volume, and if that's not enough, install some sort of audio post processing plugin for pulseaudio (i'm sure at least a simple equaliser exists).
no DTS and the like on Linux, because that's proprietary.

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Re: Need help with sound: poor quality and low volume

trouble with sound: not good and low volume

Have you experienced this problem with other operating systems or does it just happen in BunsenLabs?

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joes

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Re: Need help with sound: poor quality and low volume

I think more so on Bunsenlabs. I remember it being better. I have also have a new computer, so am not sure how much is software and hardware. I want to make sure that I have the sound configured as well as possible to improve the sound.

Joe

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Re: Need help with sound: poor quality and low volume

Can we see the output of

amixer

Please use code tags, the output will be lengthy.

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Re: Need help with sound: poor quality and low volume

OT @ohnonot, any pulse audio equalizer I've ever tried has been a buggy piece of crap. If anyone has a different opinion or suggestion on pulse equalizers please open another thread.

/OT

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titan

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Re: Need help with sound: poor quality and low volume

A lot of apps still need alsa to work with Pulse so it is worth checking alsa settings. I only used alsa and all worked fine until earlier this year when Mozilla dropped support for alsa in Firefox, without notice. Linux sound is fine when it is working but a pita when it doesn't. This is in Debian, apologies if the Bunsen devs have sorted it's sound out.

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Re: Need help with sound: poor quality and low volume

Mozilla dropped support for alsa in Firefox

You may be able to get it working with apulse, @stevep has packaged that up I think.

BL uses PA by default so the change doesn't affect us directly.

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titan

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Re: Need help with sound: poor quality and low volume

Mozilla dropped support for alsa in Firefox

You may be able to get it working with apulse, @stevep has packaged that up I think.

BL uses PA by default so the change doesn't affect us directly.

Thanks, as you say just installing PA works fine with Firefox but I then had a problem with mocp which I use a lot. I was a bit cheesed with Mozilla's attitude and so after 10 years tried Opera then Vivaldi which I think is much better than the latest Firefox and I can't see me going back.

joes

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Re: Need help with sound: poor quality and low volume

Can we see the output of

amixer

Please use code tags, the output will be lengthy.

joe@Bunsenlabs:~$ amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
  Front Left: Capture 9620 [15%] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 9620 [15%] [on]

You may be able to get it working with apulse, @stevep has packaged that up I think.

Where would I find this package?

I also have trouble with other things such as playing files I download and DVDs

Joe

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Re: Need help with sound: poor quality and low volume

You may be able to get it working with apulse, @stevep has packaged that up I think.

Where would I find this package?

You do not need that package unless you remove PulseAudio and I do not recommend that.

I also have trouble with other things such as playing files I download and DVDs

The word "trouble" can cover a very wide range of misdemeanours, can you please be (much) more specific?

Your sound system appears to be configured correctly, what is your hardware?

lspci -knn | grep -iA2 audio

A GNU/Linux system running a real time kernel with an asynchronous USB connection to an external Digital-to-Analogue Convertor should comfortably out-perform a similarly-configured Windows box for both signal-to-noise ratio and jitter, not to mention subjective sound quality.

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joes

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Re: Need help with sound: poor quality and low volume

joe@Bunsenlabs:~$ lspci -knn | grep -iA2 audio
00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:a2f0]
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:86c7]
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

I am using the onboard sound

I also have trouble with other things such as playing files I download and DVDs

What I meant was that I am having the same problems with sound on Internet, files and CDs played.

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Re: Need help with sound: poor quality and low volume

i3-7100

Sorry, I missed this completely  :8

Your hardware is too new to be supported by BunsenLabs' stock kernel (and video drivers), please follow this guide to improve performance:

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=1185

I have to say though that your computer would perform better under Debian stretch, we should have a new release out soon based on that version (hopefully).

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