max sound volume

[chuck at 110.net (Chuck Noyes)]

Ken Gosier wrote:

> Just to introduce, my name is Ken Gosier, I am a
> newbie to this list, have been lurking for a week or
> two. I am an (almost) newbie to Linux, and I have an
> (almost) newbie question:
>
> I have a Toshiba laptop, dual-boot into Win98 and RH
> 6.0. I'm setting up sound for it. I did everything in
> all the manuals fine, so now I have sound and can
> listen to CD's etc.
>
> The problem is, the max sound volume on the Win98 half
> of my machine is *much* louder than on the Linux side.
> With the control all the way up on Linux, the volume
> is OK, but not really satisfying.
>
> What I've done so far:
>
> -- I've used the mixer applet, the volume control of
> the CD player application - I've set the volume to max
> on all of these, and I also put the computer's
> external volume control all the way up.
> (In other words, I've read all the manuals that came
> in the box with the Red Hat CD's :)
>
> -- I looked into the LDP Sound HOWTO, but nothing
> there seemed to address this issue.
>
> So anyway, here's some technical info I got from
> windows:
>
> Win98 is running sound with the Yamaha OPL3-SAx WDM
> driver, provided by Microsoft.
> The I/O Range is 0220-022F
> The IRQ is 05
> The DMA is 01 (and 00, I'm pretty sure.)
>
> TIA for any help--
>
> Ken Gosier
> ken_gosier at yahoo.com
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Aat least you get sound on your laptop.  I have a Dell Inspirion 7500
and the OSS Sound drivers work fine if I want
to listen thru my earphones.  But I can't get any sound thru the
on-board speakers.
Win98 sound works fine thru the on-board speakers.

-Chuck

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