Re: N900 speaker volume booster
 

can i screw up my speakers with wrong settings in the terminal setup?or can i play a lil bit with the options???

Re: N900 speaker volume booster
 

i mean the sound options....

Re: N900 speaker volume booster
 

Yes this is the problem though some have stated it to be a hardware issue and some as software issues but no solution yet mentioned apart from sending it to the service center and getting the speaker replaced which I do not think is the issue actually.

So anyone who has been able to play with the volume control from terminal please share how to do it.

Re: N900 speaker volume booster
 

Sorry... I've forgotten this thread for a while... Anyways, after changing your settings you can make them persistent with Where 0 is the soundcard-ID. Should be the same as the number on alsamixer -c X.

However I'd reccomend you to create a backup of of your /var/lib/alsa/asound.state for the case you messed up with the mixer.

Again, I haven't tried this myself on Maemo yet as I'm fine with the default volume settings. This is just stuff I know from other Linux distros.

Re: N900 speaker volume booster
 

Actually you are very likely to screw something while fiddling around with those dozens of sliders. Anyways, after a reboot everything is reset to defaults unless you make changes persistent with the command from my previous post. There shouldn't be any harm to your hardware unless you turn everything up to 100% and play some hardcore techno for some hours :D

Still, if you screwed up, saved those changes to disk AND lost your backup, there is the possibility to request the original .state file from other users or restore it from install image.

Re: N900 speaker volume booster
 

You've been a huge help so far, but would you still know which of the sliders is the one for the in-ear speaker?

I'm really feeling a bit shaky about this stuff and I just know that since I understand this so little, reversing the changes will be impossible for me.

Re: N900 speaker volume booster
 

Hello,
I'm brand new on the forum, trying to do stuff with maemo.

The sound is fine, most of the time, except the headphones output which I find a little low.

I tried the alsamixer -c 0 , all the settings were 100, except the headphones which was 88, so I put it at 100, and the sound was fine.

I did save the settings, with the alsactl store 0 command, everything was fine.

But everytime I unplug my headphones the settings goes back to 88... weird, if I don't unplugged them, the settings stays at 100

Anyone care to help on this one? I'm not an advanced user, so maybe there is something else to do, it really bugs me as I plan to use my n900 as my primary mp3 player...

Thanks!!!

Re: N900 speaker volume booster
 

The settings are iffy, sometimes they reset on headphone plug, sometimes not. I remember fiddling with them, but not sure how I did it. I think plug headphones, ramp up the volume with rocker, then reboot while still plugged fixed it. Don't quote me.

Re: N900 speaker volume booster
 

thank you for your reply,

I did put the settings at 100 again, save it, reboot (while headset plugged all time), but it did go back at 88 on every reboot,

maybe there's something wrong when I save it? I installed the root thing, and before doing stuff, I used the sudo gainroot command...

(I have to say it is really frustrating, because there is a way and you can see the nice result of it ahah)

Re: N900 speaker volume booster
 

How about rising a proposal at the dude who wrote headphone daemon? It watches headphone stuff, maybe it could up volume when plugged, as it stops stuff when unplugged.

That should do it.