Realtek ALC888 (OSS Mixer) Very Quiet

xfce4-mixer says I am using "Realtek ALC888 (OSS Mixer)" and the speakers and mic work, but the speakers are VERY quiet. I can't hear well enough to make a phone call with Skype. So I tried this:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfc … ew_Xfce4.6
and it's not any better (I rebooted after I did that just to be sure). I have the volume on the physical speakers on 100% and xfce4-mixer also set to 100%.
I know that these speakers are actually pretty loud because other distros were LOUD.
Any suggestions how to debug this?
Thanks.

To clarify, I don't actually care if I use oss or alsa or a
kerosene-powered dust buster. I just want to be able to hear youtube and
Skype normally. And the problem isn't just Skype--also youtube is very
quiet.
I removed oss and alsa was still there. Or it claimed to be. I rebooted
but amixer and alsaconf were 'command not found'
I installed oss again and soundon gave a crazy output about conflicting
drivers. So I rebooted. When I now click on my Xfce mixer panel addon it says
GStreamer was unable to detect any sound devices. Some sound system
specific GStreamer packages may be missing. It may also be a permissions
problem.
So I added myself (once again) to the audio group and installed oss again. Now I see this:
[kirk@localhost ~]$ /etc/rc.d/oss restart
:: Stopping Open Sound System [BUSY] /etc/rc.d/oss: line 18: /usr/sbin/soundoff: Permission denied
[FAIL]
:: Starting Open Sound System [BUSY] /etc/rc.d/oss: line 8: /usr/sbin/soundon: Permission denied
[FAIL]
[kirk@localhost ~]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/oss restart
:: Stopping Open Sound System [BUSY] OSS not loaded.
[DONE]
:: Starting Open Sound System [DONE]
[kirk@localhost ~]$ ossinfo
Version info: OSS 4.1 (b 1052b/200905252233) (0x00040100) GPL
Platform: Linux/i686 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 20 07:06:02 UTC 2009 (localhost)
Number of audio devices: 7
Number of audio engines: 11
Number of mixer devices: 1
Device objects
0: osscore0 OSS core services
1: oss_hdaudio0 Intel HD Audio interrupts=502 (507)
HD Audio controller Intel HD Audio
Vendor ID 0x808627d8
Subvendor ID 0x103c2a59
Codec 2: ALC888 (0x10ec0888/0x103c2a59)
2: oss_usb0 USB audio core services
Mixer devices
0: High Definition Audio ALC888 (Mixer 0 of device object 1)
Audio devices
HD Audio play front /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0 (device index 0)
HD Audio play rear /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm1 (device index 1)
HD Audio play center/LFE /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm2 (device index 2)
HD Audio play side /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm3 (device index 3)
HD Audio play pcm4 /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm4 (device index 4)
HD Audio rec mix /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin0 (device index 5)
HD Audio rec mix /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin1 (device index 6)
/dev/dsp -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_in -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_out -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_mmap -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_multich -> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0
I am a bit lost now.
EDIT But now when I click on the mixer it says "Sound card: High Definition Audio ALC888 (OSS v4 Audio Mixer)" and when I select controls there are approximately sixty options. Really, sixty.
Last edited by CaptainKirk (2009-06-10 07:32:33)

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