Very low volume from headphones and external speakers on HP p7-1235 (Ubuntu 12.04)

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Installed 12.04 on a new HP Pavilion desktop p7-1235 (AMD A8-5500 APU). Volume is very low from external speakers and headphones plugged into the front jack. I set the master volume and speaker/headphone volumes to max, but volume is very low. Used alsamixer to set everything to max, unmuted, same result.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 10 '12 at 02:55

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Try installing pavucontrol:

sudo aptitude install pavucontrol

It might be that an output device has its volume low and the volume indicator doesn't control it (i.e. when you increase/decrease the volume, this only affects one sink only)

answered Nov 10 '12 at 02:55

ivotron

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 13 '12 at 18:22

There's a chance that your sound card might not be driving enough electricity to up the volume. If it goes lower when you reduce it, this may be a good indicator of that.

The best suggestion would be to get a set of externally powered headphones/speakers.

Source: I had an HP DV-9000 with the same issue about 2 years ago.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 19 '12 at 20:37

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I'm not sure if you have done it yet, but try either

new headphone maybe?
maybe you could try another version of ubuntu, possibly 12.10? Or 12.04 LTS?

edited Nov 19 '12 at 20:37

Kyle Macey

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answered Nov 06 '12 at 16:30

Jordan

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Very low volume from headphones and external speakers on HP p7-1235 (Ubuntu 12.04)

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