[ltp] Re: Re: T520: Not loud enough

[Axel Braun]

Steven J. Owens wrote:

>>
>>      I have the same problem, I haven't found an answer (other than to
>> plug in internal speakers).  I've tried pavu, alsamixer, etc.
> 
>      Interestingly, I just found something that makes the audio almost
> good enough.  I have a t520 with nvidia and an intel core i7, running
> xubuntu 11.10.  I don't remember seeing this under standard ubuntu, it's
> either specific to xubuntu or was added relatively recently:
> 
>      When I click the menu bar sound icon and select "Sound Settings",
> the resulting popup has a slider for "Output volume:", and here's the
> interesting part - it goes past 100%.  When I drag the slider all the
> way to the far-right, sound is almost good enough!

This is probably pavucontrol - while the application that makes noise is 
running you get the option to over-amplify. KMixer does not offer this