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mee> 1. Run "alsamixer," and turn up the levels that seem useful to you. I
mee> set mine at around 80-90%.
Ahhh, I have just discovered something disturbing about my sound card, a
Live! Player: one gets noticeable distortion if anything but the master
volume is set to greater than 60-65% (high levels of the master volume
have no such problem). This is pretty bad and really surprised me.
mee> 2. Run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound restart" to save your changes. You
mee> don't have to do this explicitly, but I like to, in case I don't
mee> shut down properly.
What you can do is to run just 'alsactl store' (as 'root'), and then
make sure that 'alsactl restore' is done either by the
'/etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound' script or you invoke it in a lne in
'rc.local'.
mee> 3. Run one of the cute GUI mixers, like gmix or kmix, and turn up the
mee> levels again. I have no idea why this is necessary, but it is on my
mee> machines.
This should not be necessary if 'alsactl restore' is part of the ALSA
startup script of your distribution.
BTW, the best GUI mixer for ALSA is 'xamixer'; it has a much more
compact yet complete layout than the others.
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