Sound control not doing much

So at 1/10 volume my laptop sounds about the same as on 10/10. At 10/10 The high frequencies might be a tiny bit more pronounced, but that’s it. There is only one audio output device.

What can I do to fix this issue?

Flat laptop? where the developers/engineers puts a great sound here? common sense. Is as TV… You need buy a great speakers… Or buy a external usb audio card (fairly good) + bluetooth speakers… :smile_cat:

Yes it is a flat and thin laptop. But my volume control does work on windows. So what you are saying doesn’t apply here.

Windows? Hey! We are using Fedora here… Well, 1, 2 3.

David, I am not here because I want help with the audio on windows. The sound on Windows is fine, I was simply saying that the sound on fedora does not work they way it does on Windows.

I have a flat laptop and the sound is bad here in Fedora… as Windows… If you want test o improve (tune) the sound; you can touch pulse-audio. I dream yet with a equalizer or decent “pulse-audio” gui. Here the results with my bluetooth (Index 2).

[makerpm@localhost ~]$ pacmd list-sinks
2 sink(s) available.
    index: 0
	name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo>
	driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
	flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY DYNAMIC_LATENCY
	state: SUSPENDED
	suspend cause: IDLE
	priority: 9039
	volume: front-left: 58327 /  89% / -3.04 dB,   front-right: 58327 /  89% / -3.04 dB
	        balance 0.00
	base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
	volume steps: 65537
	muted: no
	current latency: 0.00 ms
	max request: 0 KiB
	max rewind: 0 KiB
	monitor source: 0
	sample spec: s32le 2ch 48000Hz
	channel map: front-left,front-right
	             Estéreo
	used by: 0
	linked by: 0
	configured latency: 0.00 ms; range is 0.50 .. 2000.00 ms
	card: 0 <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0>
	module: 6
	properties:
		alsa.resolution_bits = "32"
		device.api = "alsa"
		device.class = "sound"
		alsa.class = "generic"
		alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
		alsa.name = "ALC3221 Analog"
		alsa.id = "ALC3221 Analog"
		alsa.subdevice = "0"
		alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
		alsa.device = "0"
		alsa.card = "0"
		alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"
		alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7d10000 irq 32"
		alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
		device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0"
		sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0"
		device.bus = "pci"
		device.vendor.id = "8086"
		device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
		device.product.id = "1e20"
		device.product.name = "7 Series/C216 Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller"
		device.form_factor = "internal"
		device.string = "front:0"
		device.buffering.buffer_size = "768000"
		device.buffering.fragment_size = "384000"
		device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
		device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
		device.profile.description = "Estéreo Analógico"
		device.description = "Audio Interno Estéreo Analógico"
		alsa.mixer_name = "Realtek ALC3221"
		alsa.components = "HDA:10ec0282,10280591,00100003 HDA:80862806,80860101,00100000"
		module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
		device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
	ports:
		analog-output-speaker: Speakers (priority 10000, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
			properties:
				device.icon_name = "audio-speakers"
		analog-output-headphones: Auriculares analógicos (priority 9900, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
			properties:
				device.icon_name = "audio-headphones"
	active port: <analog-output-speaker>
  * index: 2
	name: <bluez_sink.30_21_30_19_63_19.a2dp_sink>
	driver: <module-bluez5-device.c>
	flags: HARDWARE DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY 
	state: RUNNING
	suspend cause: (none)
	priority: 9050
	volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB,   front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
	        balance 0.00
	base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
	volume steps: 65537
	muted: no
	current latency: 53.78 ms
	max request: 4 KiB
	max rewind: 0 KiB
	monitor source: 3
	sample spec: s16le 2ch 48000Hz
	channel map: front-left,front-right
	             Estéreo
	used by: 1
	linked by: 1
	fixed latency: 46.33 ms
	card: 2 <bluez_card.30_21_30_19_63_19>
	module: 27
	properties:
		bluetooth.protocol = "a2dp_sink"
		device.description = "BT-SPEAKER"
		device.string = "30:21:30:19:63:19"
		device.api = "bluez"
		device.class = "sound"
		device.bus = "bluetooth"
		device.form_factor = "hands-free"
		bluez.path = "/org/bluez/hci0/dev_30_21_30_19_63_19"
		bluez.class = "0x240408"
		bluez.alias = "BT-SPEAKER"
		device.icon_name = "audio-handsfree-bluetooth"
		device.intended_roles = "phone"
	ports:
		handsfree-output: Handsfree (priority 0, latency offset 0 usec, available: yes)
			properties:
				
	active port: <handsfree-output>
[makerpm@localhost ~]$

This article is a bit old, but things should still work as described: Precise audio control with Fedora