Subject: Re: Very Low Sound Volume
To: None <JakeCatfox@aol.com>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/14/2001 13:58:11
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 JakeCatfox@aol.com wrote:
> I got sound running fine in NetBSD, but the sound is very low and you can
> only hear it through external devices (headphones, speakers), not through the
> laptop's internal speakers (I think I heard a faint whisper of sound, but I
> had to put my ear right up to the speaker to do that.) It's an Ectiva 1938
> card. I checked the gain, and it's on 127, and there are no ouputs muted.

The volumes should go all the way up to 255...

Try:
 mixerctl -w inputs.dac=255
 mixerctl -w outputs.master=255

Cheers,
Jared