Realtek audio for Mint

[Erik Groothuijzen]

I finally install Linux Mint 21.3 on my Lenovo W530 laptop. Everything seems to work fine except that the sound volume is very low. Once you start looking for solutions you get all sorts of reactions from, no way to easy, and non work. Some guys think we know what we are doing, and really, we still don't and they just throw terminology at you that does not make sense.
I have l7aud05ws14.zip loaded in my download folder and would like to install this to see if it would improve matters with volume and quality. The drivers that come with Mint do not seem to work that well. Any ideas or pointers?

 

[osprey]

Can you raise the volumes in the alsamixer program run in a terminal?

 

[Condobloke]

Here's how

How do I adjust alsamixer?

How I chage alsamixer in the command line so that I can fine tune alsamixer and get rid of some white noise? Right now it looks like this. But from what I have read I need it to look like this. ...

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[Erik Groothuijzen]

How do I get to the alsa mixer to adjust it?

 

[Condobloke]

open Terminal

ctrl+alt+T

or....click on menu, and type in terminal

When terminal is open, type or copy and paste in :

alsamixer

 

[osprey]

When alsamixer is opened, as outlined above by @Condobloke, then you can:
press F1 key for help to see all the options you can use,
press Esc key to return to volume bars,
press F5 to see all volume bars,
raise the volumes by using the up arrow key, and move from bar to bar with the left and right arrow keys.
press Esc to quit alsamixer when you're finished.