14 Apr, 2009
Fixing Low Sound on Ubuntu By Changing Pulseaudio or ALSA Setting
Posted by: admin In: ubuntu
By use ALSA from Pulseaudio as the sound device on the computer, ones
has experience an ALSA force reload each time he want to turn the
volume up and the volume has a very low sound. Might it not the
cleanest method handling any audio in the computer but if you’ve got
the same audio problem of very low sound, have you tried to manage
device audio setting to be used for sound playback under the System =>
Preferences => Sound.
Perhaps very low sound produce in the computer audio cause of ALSA
Pulseaudio, I’m not sure but to make sure this caused of very low
sound is that all the mixer tracks are selected under System =>
Preferences => Sound so all the tracks show up in your Volume Control.
Another thing you can try to fix very low sound problem because of
using ALSA from Pulseaudio, you can check in the volume control
dialog, and see if you are able to change audio device on you computer
by go to
File => Change Device menu helps.