Very very weak sound from the speaker

[Rommel Martinez]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Marc Coyles
<mcoyles at horbury.wakefield.sch.uk> wrote:
> Take it you've checked hardware volume control on the laptop (ie: Function
> Key and whichever key has volume-up logo on it)? That'll override anything
> determined at software level...
>
> Marc A Coyles
> Horbury School ICT Support Team (ext 730)
> Mbl: 07850 518106

Done that. It's set to max afaik. Still the same weak sound. :-(

>
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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Rommel Martinez
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:51 PM
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> Subject: Very very weak sound from the speaker
>
> I'm wondering why is it that no matter what I do, I can't seem to make
> my laptop emit sound lounder than a whisper.  The laptop is an ECS
> Elitegroup W330 (Arima W330-UCX) and this is the website of the
> laptop: http://www.arimacorp.com/ViewProduct.asp?View=145
>
> I thought at first there was no sound coming out at all, so what I did was I
> plugged an external speaker to it and maxed out the volume via the
> volume knob and set my mixer settings all to 100, then I was able to
> hear sound from the speaker, but it's too weak to be of any good use.
>
> The following is my configuration:
>
> $ cat /boot/loader.conf | grep snd_
> snd_ich_load="YES"
>
> $ kldstat | grep snd_
>  3    1 0xc0d30000 6f88     snd_ich.ko
>
> $ kldstat | grep sound
>  4    2 0xc0d37000 4a5ac    sound.ko
>
> $ cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep pcm
> pcm0: <Intel ICH6 (82801FB)> port 0x5000-0x50ff,0x48c0-0x48ff mem
> 0xb0040800-0xb00409ff,0xb0040400-0xb00404ff irq 20 at device 30.2 on
> pci0
> pcm0: [ITHREAD]
> pcm0: <Avance Logic ALC250 AC97 Codec>
>
> $ cat /dev/sndstat
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <Intel ICH6 (82801FB)> at io 0xb0040800, 0xb0040400 irq 20 bufsz
> 16384 kld snd_ich [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default)
>
> $ mixer
> Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer pcm is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer speaker is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer line is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer mic is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer cd is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer rec is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer igain is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer ogain is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer line1 is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer phin is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer phout is currently set to 100:100
> Recording source: mic
>
> I tried audacious, xmms, and mpg123 but I still get
> the same behaviour.
>
> What's causing this? Can anybody give pointers why
> is this happening?
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Rommel M. Martinez <ebzzry at gmail.com>
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