Quote Originally Posted by talismand
ok, perhaps I was unclear.....

WITH the volume in KDE turned all the way up, EVERYTHING unmuted from kmix and aumix, AND my speaker volume turned all the way up on my receiver, all I hear is faint music and even the faint music is grainy and crackly.


any thoughts?

I am having the same exact problem with CMedia 8738 onboard sound card. Volume is all cranked up, but can barley hear it. I found that alsa has a console based volume control. This is the site with commands. I will try this when I get home.

http://tldp.org/LDP/linuxcookbook/html/cookbook_27.html