Just got a new screen with built in speakers.
Installed Kmix to get the volume level up on my "on the motherboard" audio system, but it sounds tinny.

Does Kmix have an add on equalizer that will help me pull a little more out of my cheap sound system?

Thanks
G

In order to use an equalizer GUI (no idea whether kmix has such) you'll first require some software equalizer (since that chip likely won't have a hardware one)

Alsa:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad ... _equalizer

PulseAudio:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu ... #Equalizer

It's a Viewsonic monitor and there is a driver disk which has "SRS Premium Sound Software" on it, but of course there are only drivers for Windoz and Macs

I doubt there's a DSP in the monitor
The relevant bit of Hardware is on your motherboard, likely some intel HDA chip -> you *must* ensure/extend the sound system with a software equalizer if you want system wide band control. Those software equalizers *may* extend the DSP so that you'll simply get additional sliders in all mixers (alsamixer/kmix/...) - at least that happens here (but on a HW mixer)

It is an Intel mbrd and the ALSA description says........

HDA Intel at 0x93100000 irq 46

........if that helps.

It helps as much as those chips don't have an hardware mixer/equalizer, so install a software equalizer for either ALSA or pulseaudio (depending on whether you've the latter in use)
While the description in the links is for archlinux, it should work pretty much the same everywhere (the package names may vary)

After a restart of either ALSA or PA (in doubt: reboot) you should then have sliders for the different bandwidths.

I googled a bit and it seems you won't get this (or anything else) with PulseAudio since they seem to consider that

users don't understand the "many" sound channels and what they do, so we use only one channel to represent the sound levels