Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[slenkar]

Hi my speakers are supposed to be plugged into another PC that has a built in amp
, that PC broke so I now plug the speakers straight into the soundcard but they are very quiet.

what i need is a way of boosting the volume to the whole OS (turn it up to 11)

when people talk on vent (mangler) i can boost their volume with a slider so its nice and loud, so I know its possible

[darkcity]

Does vent (mangler) run on Puppy?

Have you turned everything up in retrovol?

[Flash]

As far as I know, the speaker output of all motherboards is very low power, requiring amplification before it will drive speakers with enough power to be heard. Sound cards also generally require their output to be amplified.

Slenkar, if you still have that old computer, the card where the speakers were plugged in may be still good. It must contain an amplifier. You should be able to move it to the new computer. Otherwise, you'll have to either get a sound card that has an amplifier, an external amplifier for the speakers or new speakers with a built-in amplifier.

[slenkar]

yeah mangler works in precise puppy as long as you go into the hidden folder in /root/ and change pulse to alsa in the config file

interesting idea to get the amp out of the old pc

[Flash]

The first computer I bought had a Winmodem in it. Apparently those things have amplifiers that are powerful enough to double as the output amplifier for the speakers. Unfortunately everything in a Winmodem is done in software, so you can't use them in Linux for the audio amplifier. So I had to buy speakers with built-in amplifiers. Too bad, because H-P had done a good job of matching the speakers to the amp. They really sounded good.

[darkcity]

if mangler is getting higher volume then it seems odd other programs can't.

[Flash]

Yeah, I can't explain that - unless there's something about your computer that you haven't told us.