[svlug] Sound troubles in Hardy

[Christian Einfeldt]

hi,

I am running 32 bit Hardy (GNOME) on the TeraByte Beast (tbb), but the sound
is misbehaving.  It is playing very low, despite the fact that I have turned
up the volume on both the applications that are playing sound, as well as
the system sound in the upper right had corner.

I have tried running the sound test in System > Preferences > sound, and
that works okay for three of the four tests there:  Sound events > Sound
playback; Music and Movies > Sound playback; Audio Conferencing > Sound
playback; but the test for Audio Conferencing > Sound capture does not work
at all.

For the first three tests, the sound works, but the volume is very low,
despite the fact that I have the volume turned up all the way on the sound
controller on the upper right hand corner of the top GNOME bar.

Sound capture is currently set for ALSA, and the Default Mixer Tracks is set
for Realtek ALC885.

Most vexing of all is that the volume sound from the video that I have shot
for the Digital Tipping Point film is very low when I open it in Totem,
Mplayer, Kino, or VLC. I have tried using a wide variety of video segments
in a .dv, .mpg, and .ogg formats.  I have tested these audio clips on
another Gutsy system and they work fine.

I am able to play commercial CDs such as KISS's "Love Gun" album, but it
also plays at low volume.

The output of

$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/also-base is here:

http://pastebin.ca/1039186

The output of cat /proc/asound/version is here:

cje at tbb:~$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16.
Compiled on May 6 2008 for kernel 2.6.24-17-rt (SMP).
cje at tbb:~$


Googling seems to return lots of stuff, but none of it related to this
issue.  Thanks in advance!

-- 
Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point
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