Last night I installed Ubuntu 8.04 and I’m so impressed. I did the WbUI version. And let me tell you, It was the easiest OS install I have ever done. Everything is great only one problem. My audio was really quiet. I have an Realtek ALC888 chipset. I had to crank my speakers to get a descent volume.
I found a solution.
Even through I have my speakers plugged into the ‘Green’ standard front channel jack Ubuntu thinks it’s plugged into the side channel.
- Open up the ALSA mixer[double click on the speaker at the top by the time]
- Click on Edit->Preferences
- Check all of the output channels
- Turn the volume up on all the devices till you find the right channel(be careful if you have your speakers still cranked or you’ll soil yourself)
Thats it. Easy.
WOW!! 2 hours of trying to tweak the system and it was as easy as that. Thanks!
Hey, thanks for this great info – I was just about throwing my desktop out of the window because I couldn’t get more than one speaker to work… installed different drivers and so on… but now I activated all channels and… it works!
But sometimes things are so simple
THX a lot!
Awesome!! Thanks!
I had the very same problem, spent half a day finding solutions.. and it was this easy
Thanks
Took me hours to find a solution for this on my Inspiron 1420. Thanks so much
Just to say THANKS.
OBRIGADO (in portuguese)