no sound below 20%

[red123]

I noticed that when I set my volume control settings to below 20%, I would get no sound. This applies system wide on all applications. The sound does not just fade away, it just mute itself below 20%. Any idea on how to fix? My laptop model is Dell M1530 and I am using Mint 10

[seeley]

Hi red123!
Though I never heard this: Did you try:

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gnome-alsamixer

I suppose, "alsamixer" and "pavucontrol" did not have any success.
seeley

[red123]

Command not found. When I did pavucontrol, I see the little playback bar moving left and right showing that the system is picking up that something is playing, but then I do not have sound below 20%

[seeley]

Hi!
If you use Mint 10, than your default desktop is Gnome, if you run

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gnome-alsamixer

you should see something like:

...is not installed, you can install it by ...

seeley

[red123]

I just installed it and I noticed that the mixer master bar was all the way at the bottom even though the volume bar is not at 0. How do I fix this?

[seeley]

Hi!
First we should find out your sound card:

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cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec

and

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aplay -L

seeley

[hobgoblin]

Just so you know - I've been searching for the launchpad bug for this. I was sure that there was one - couldn't find it though.

I've had the same thing for 2 or 3 release with ubuntu.

There is a bug report now - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/695605

[red123]

Thought I was the only one with the problem.