Volume control doesn't lower subwoofer volume on a Dell Inspiron 9300

I can confirm this on a 9300 as well. Even with the volume muted sound still plays VERY loudly through the subwoofer. If a person can't figure out how to disable this, this would be a show-stopper.

I just want to add that for me this bug also existed in 8.10 so if it is a regression it doesn't seem to be new to Jaunty.

Attaching the output of lspci, with the relevant line perhaps being "00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)"

so this seemed to work for me.

click on the 'volume control' icon, then the 'volume control' button.

click 'preferences' and check 'master mono'

by sliding the master mono the subwoofer volume changes independently of the front speakers. it's a little annoying if you ever adjust it, but this seems to be working for me now.

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I have fixed the problem for my dell inspiron 9300 with the following script syncing the volumes of the master channel with those of the subwoofer and the headphones. I have added the script to the startup programs.

#!/bin/bash

while true
do
 A=`amixer sget 'Master' | grep "Front Left: Playback"`
 A=${A:23:2}
 amixer sset 'Master Mono' $A unmute
        amixer sset 'Headphone' $A unmute
 sleep 0.3
done

I have a inpiron 9400 and have the same problem. I am running Ubuntu 10.10. It was also happening with 10.04. I tried Linux mint and all went fine but, I dont like mint, I like Ubuntu and would like to get this problem solved and yes im a newbie.

why is there always a sound issue with ubuntu and i cant get seem to get answers half the time. is anyone even working on the sound problems. there needs to be some standardized apps for sound.

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