Sound appears to be low ? How to upgrade only that is necessary?

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Sound appears to be low ? How to upgrade only that is necessary?

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Started 10 months ago by vardhanapu
Latest reply from sully38
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Posted 10 months ago

# 65

vardhanapu
Member

Hi ! there, friends,
Brand new Ubuntu convert. Non tech geek, if u would permit me to describe myself a geek at all ! hahahahahaha !!!
Purchased a brand new Compaq Presario SG3770IL Desktop PC ( Specs:Intel® Core™2 Duo processor E7400
• 2.80 GHz, 3 MB L2 Cache, 1066 MHz System Bus ) WITH FREE DOS (How is that for a con ?) NO WINDOWS!
System features:
Graphic sub system name:Intel® GMA 3100 Graphics;
Video RAM :with 128MB shared graphics memory. Up to 287MB Total Available Graphics Memory as allocated by Windows Vista®
Internal audio:Integrated Intel High Definition Audio - 5.1 Surround Sound Ready
External I/O ports:6 USB 2.0 ports (2 front, 4 rear), 2 PS/2, LAN
Expansion slots:1 PCI Express (x16), 2 PCI Express (x1), 1 PCI
Network interface:Integrated 10/100 BaseT network interface (Broadband Ready)

Problems:

1. Looks like my system has a low voice. When I listen to music and movies downloaded from net over headphones, I get a low voice even with full volume control of the system and the VLC player/Amarok/Dragon player/SM player. What could be the reason? ( S/W: Ubuntu 9.04 beta+Kubuntu+Edubuntu+Xubuntu)

2. How do I understand what is a necessary upgrade ? Whenever I Look for upgrades, there are upgrades of, say, something like 100 MB. If one keeps upgrading regularly, it looks like the entire disk space will be full of upgrades

3. When I tried to copy something from the USB ext drive in a 'personal'file created in the 641.5 MB Media, it informed me that there was no sufficient space

4. Ubuntu 8.10 was loaded from CD and loading was done "automatically" instead of the manual method by my HP vendor. Think my system was not partitioned.

5. Can I partition now. How do I do it?

I was fed up with the Windows Vista Home Premium and took this. Am enthusiastic to understand how this flavour of Linux works?

Answers / guidance anyone?

thanks in advance.

Happy Ubunt'an - Vardhanapu
Posted 10 months ago

# 75

sadicote
Member

As a fellow non-tech geek, i suggest this: right click your volume icon and choose 'Open Volume Control', now click on Preferences and check all the neat stuff like surround, capture, microphone, etc., turn everything up and see if it makes any difference. Good luck.
Posted 10 months ago

# 84

SanketMedhi
Member

You have too many questions to answer to. I will only answer your first question.

1. Increase volume using volume control.
2. Increase the application's volume.
3. Use decent speakers/headphones.
4. If these don't work for you, double-click on the Volume item to open Volume Preferences. Here try increasing the PCM volume if you have one.
5. Try to fiddle around with anything and everything till you get your desired output.
Posted 9 months ago

# 96

kvsingh
Member

i had a same kind of problem. i installed alsamixer. and then it became ok.
Posted 8 months ago

# 123

sully38
Member

Hello
Ubuntu 9.04 beta version? Now I would suggest to you, if the official version downloads to you. But you can also take Ubuntu 8.10. (what I like personally better)
Instal to you 8.10, no problems might be to be expected.

The beta a version of Ubuntu is like all beta versions a test version.
Something had small mistakes which were removed, however, in the official version.

Gruss Sully

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