Make the sound louder in Lubuntu
Solution 1
You could try using PulseAudio. Simply install pavucontrol
package and then play with volume levels through the settings menu of the regular volume control in the panel.
Solution 2
I am not sure it answers your question, however, when the sound on my laptop is not loud enough I generally go into the sound properties (there is a speaker icon on the upper right corner) and slides the pre-amplification to a higher value (over 100%). It can be convenient but it remains pre-amp (as VLC does for example) so depending on the situation in can deteriorates the sound.
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pratiksha
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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pratiksha over 1 year
I have a Toshiba r835 running Lubuntu 11.10. Turning the volume slider up all the way doesn't give very loud sound. I've tried typing
alsamixer
in a terminal and turning up all the levels there to maximum, but the speakers are still fairly quiet. Is there a simple way to increase maximum volume in software?I understand that there are physical limits to the sound the laptop's speakers can produce, but I suspect my maximum volume is limited by software.
EDIT:
This is exactly the type of solution I'm looking for. However, it doesn't work for me. What I did:
sudo pico /etc/asound.conf
This file does not exist, so I create a new one, containing:
pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "softvol" } pcm.softvol { type softvol slave { pcm "dmix" } control { name "Pre-Amp" card 0 } min_dB -5.0 max_dB 20.0 resolution 6 }
I reboot the machine, and type
alsamixer
. I use my left/right arrow keys to inspect the various volume options. I expect to see a new option, calledPre-Amp
, but I don't see one. This fix seems to work for other people. Why doesn't this fix work for me?-
Panther about 12 yearsMost of the applications have a volume control as well as alasmixer.
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jarno over 10 yearsI think it is unnecessary to reboot after changing configuration. Just run
sudo alsa force-reload
, instead.
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pratiksha about 12 yearsI may be misinterpreting your answer, but I think you're telling me to use alsamixer to control my volume? I have already tried setting all volume levels to maximum with alsamixer.
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Eliah Kagan over 11 yearsCan you edit this answer to provide more information about how to do this, why you believe this is a particularly good way, how high VLC will let you increase the volume, and/or under what circumstances (if any) the increase applies to applications running outside of (or after) VLC?
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Alvar almost 11 yearsincreasing the volume only works in vlc, and is therefor only good for files that you have and work for vlc. So this wont work for sound in general in Ubuntu.
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Braiam over 10 yearsInstead asking the user to look into the man page, make the man page come to us! Also, he's asking how to make his speaker louder, not where he can find the manual...
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Daria almost 8 yearsU made my day! <3