Low volume

[N. Raghavendra]

At 2005-11-07T22:58:48-08:00, manish jain wrote:

> I am using FreeBSD 5.4 with an Intel 810 chipset which has an
> onboard soundcard. While everything else works fine, the sound
> volume is inexplicably low.

You could use mixer(8) to control the volume and other sound
parameters, with a command like this:

  % mixer vol 100

To make the settings persist over reboots, add the following to
`/boot/device.hints':

  ## Set the audio mixer's volume channel [Handbook, 7.2.4].
  hint.pcm.0.vol="100"
  ## Do the above for all mixer channels.  The available channels can be
  ## found using mixer(8).
  hint.pcm.0.pcm="100"
  hint.pcm.0.speaker="100"
  hint.pcm.0.line="100"
  hint.pcm.0.mic="100"
  hint.pcm.0.cd="100"
  hint.pcm.0.rec="100"
  hint.pcm.0.ogain="100"
  hint.pcm.0.line1="100"
  hint.pcm.0.phin="100"
  hint.pcm.0.phout="100"
  hint.pcm.0.video="100"

I do not understand the way the sound system works, so some of the
above channels may be meaningless.  However, it should give one the
idea.

HTH,
Raghavendra.

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