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[KC135]

HP Pavillion dv8327cl (low sound)

I have sound just very low volume
I am Nooob and have no idea were to start.

any thoughs or advice would be greatly appreciated.....

[jimallyn]

Have you played with the settings in the Sound Mixer? Click Launch, Applications, Multimedia, Sound Mixer.

Jim
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[KC135]

yes tried that. no help there
set to max

[jimallyn]

Well then, we're going to have to get a little more information on your sound system. Click Launch, Applications, System, Console, and in the window that opens up, type lspci -v and hit Enter. A bunch of stuff will appear on the screen. Find the stuff about multimedia/audio and copy/paste it here. That will tell us what kind of sound system your computer has, and hopefully will help us get it working properly.

Jim
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[KC135]

wow that's really cool.
i'll have to remember that trick

well here's what i found

0000:00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 30a5
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 58
Memory at d2400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

[jimallyn]

We need to check if you have a couple of lines in one of the configuration files. If we have to change the file, it has to be done as Admin/root, so we might as well start out doing this with Admin/root permissions. Click Launch, Applications, System, Administrator Tools, Xandros File Manager (Administrator) and enter the Admin/root password when it asks for it. When the Admin File Manager opens up, if you haven't already done so, click View, Show All File Systems. Click the up arrow in the toolbar once, then click on All File Systems, then on the folder labeled / then on the folder labeled etc

Scroll down until you see a file labeled modules. NOT modules.conf, just plain modules. Double click it, and it should open in a text editor. If you don't see the following lines:

snd-intel8x0m
snd-pcm-oss
snd-mixer-oss
snd-seq-oss

add them. Then save the file, exit out of all programs, then reboot the computer.

Let me know whether you had those lines in the modules file, whether adding them fixed the sound problem, and so on. If that doesn't do it, there's probably a couple of other things we could try.

You might also go to the sound mixer again, and turn up things even if you don't think they'd be related to the problem. I remember one user had to turn up 'mono sound output' or something like that to get sound, even though he was using the sound card in stereo, not mono. So if there's anything you haven't tried yet, try turning them all up!

Jim
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[KC135]

I apologise for letting you hang so long, I appreciate very much all your help.
My life kinda blew up on me all of a sudden, and i'm just now back in action.
I will make the mod you suggested and will post results.

again Thak you very much

[KC135]

When I opened the modules file this is what I found before I modified it.

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with
# a "#", and everything on the line after them are ignored.
8250_pci
8250_pnp
ppp_generic
ppp_async
ppp_synctty
pppoe
autofs4
parport
parport_pc
lp
fuse
#snd-pcm-oss
evdev
psmouse
battery

I followed your instructios precisely and exactly as prescribed.
I think it a little better but not sure.
been along time since I've been on this machine.
Now at max volume it is about half of what it is in Windows XP
(dual Boot machine)

Am I just being unrealistic in expecting same soud level?
I have more isiues with this install that may be contributing to some other problems, like when machine boots up i see lots of stuff on boot screen sayig can't alocate stuff , and something about memory. (it was like this before your mod)

It goes by pretty fast so I'll have to write it down over several reboots or take picture with camera.

unless there's a way to view boot logs later?

Thanks for your patience

[jimallyn]