[ltp] Audio is really quiet on the X220

[Steven J. Owens]

> On 2011-09-20 11:48, Steven J. Owens wrote:
> >
> >      I'm running Ubuntu 10.4 LTS on a T520 and audio over the speakers
> >is very underpowered.  Audio over headphones is much more acceptable.
> >
> >      I got a second T520 for my mom and left Windows 7 on it, it seems
> >to be significantly louder than on the one with Ubuntu.  I need to get
> >around to making a 10.4 LTS live CD and trying that on the Windows
> >machine.

Matt Jenny <jeni.matsuto@gmail.com> wrote:
>   try using alsamixer and see if one of your outputs is turned down, had
>   that problem with a R61e a long time ago    

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:47:58PM -0600, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> You do use both the hardware audio level AND the OS audio setting?

     Thank you both, and Yup, I've checked all of the both hard and
soft methods of fiddling with the audio level. I've tried alsamixer,
pulseaudio (pavucontrol), the in-application audio controls, the
physical controls, ran speaker-test, fiddled with the X GUI "sound
preferences", etc, as documented on this linux-thinkpad thread:

http://old.nabble.com/t520-speakers-seem-weak-td31728621.html

     The next post mentions amixer showing some limits. That sounds
like it might be a useful line of inquiry...

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