[ltp] How to get volume hotkeys working again on W500?

[Marc MERLIN]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 05:25:28PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Mar 2010, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > > The hardware lost the extra console (headphone/speakers) volume control, so
> > 
> > Yeah, I noticed that. I wonder how many cents that saved :-/
> 
> Well, it removed an entire IC that did the eletronic volume control plus the
> spearker and headphone amplification and drive.  I doubt it was a cost
> issue, more likely it was a power budget issue, supply chain issue (that IC
> is an old part, might be in phase-out at the vendor) or a noise issue.

Gotcha on that.

Now this reminds me that I find the speaker volume fairly low on this
laptop. When the source is low too, end volume is too low sometimes.

Does someone have a recommended way to boost sound by resampling the output
past whatever volume 100% on alsamixer would give you?

Marc
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