Ubuntu – Volume too low on Ubuntu 17.10

alsapulseaudiosound

I've a 2.1 sound system and on a Windows PC it works very well. On Ubuntu 17.10 and 16.04 the volume is lower than Windows also at 100%. I've already tried looking at alsamixer (a mixer program for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) and it's OK, all at 100%, if I increase max volume over 100% it's sounds very bad. I've also tried to reinstall alsamixer and PulseAudio (a network-capable sound server program) but nothing to do.

Here is the output of this long set of commands:

cat /proc/asound/{version,cards,devices,hwdep,pcm,seq/clients}
ls -l /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/
sudo rm /etc/asound.conf
sudo rm -r ~/.pulse ~/.asound*
sudo rm ~/.pulse-cookie
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install aptitude
sudo aptitude install paman gnome-alsamixer libasound2-plugins padevchooser libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio
sudo lshw -short
ls -lart /dev/snd
find /lib/modules/`uname -r` | grep snd
cat /dev/sndstat
lspci -nn
lsusb
sudo which alsactl
sudo fuser -v /dev/dsp /dev/snd/*
dpkg -S bin/slmodemd
dmesg | egrep 'EMU|probe|emu|ALSA|alsa|ac97|udi|snd|ound|irmware'
sudo /etc/init.d/sl-modem-daemon status
sudo grep model /etc/modprobe.d/*
sudo dmidecode | egrep 'anufact|roduct|erial|elease'
lsmod | egrep 'snd|usb|midi|udio'
pacmd list-sinks
aplay -l
sudo alsa force-reload
ubuntu-support-status
sudo lshw -C sound

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My notebook: Dell Inspiron 7559

Audio codec: Realtek ALC3246

What can I do?

Best Answer

This question is duplicate of topics at askubuntu, which deal with issue, that Ubuntu installation has "no sound".

You might try to install music packages and then reboot the machine:

sudo apt-get install rhythmbox amarok

sudo reboot

Because music packages have additional drivers. You also could try this with packages like clementine or like with sayonara.

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