Sound question?

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hi all,
I have sound in kde (the login sound and cdplayer) but the volume is 
lower than it is when I'm in the windows envirnment (dule booting my 
laptop)? I looked into alsa but it is not installed.
However I do have alsa-lib and alsa-driver installed.
So my question is how do I increase the volum level of my system?
Do I need to install alsa and alsa-tools, alsa-utils, libsndfile, fftw 
or anything else?

Ralph