On 28/10/11 10:09, Harry Putnam wrote: > Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> writes: > > > [...] > >> Run a mixer (e.g., alsamixer) and check to make sure nothing's muted >> and that the volumes are set to reasonable levels. > > Egad, that was it, alsamixer showed the volume being really low. > > OK now I've got sound and happily listing to wbez > > One thing I don't see is a way to increase/decrease sound in the > separate speakers.
If you still have KDE installed... use the Kmixer - it should be under the Multimedia section of Klauncher (your menu) - or you can start it using:- $ kmix It'll appear in the systray - right-click on it, Show Mixer Window => Mixer => Settings => Configure Kmix - tick Dock in SystemTray (to make show in systemtray the default setting). >From Menu => Settings => SystemSettings => Multimedia you can set up your default profiles for different sound usage. Hint: Menu => Help is a good place to start. > > Only seems possible to increase/decrease both at once. > > in the attached screen grab, starting from the left. 1 and 3 are the > only columns that have any effect and either of those turns both > speakers up/down together. > > Using F6 allows one to pick the sound card...`default' shows only one > column and `Intel ICH5' (as in the screen shot) shows several columns > but only the two mentioned above actually seem to do anything. > > Fortunately my speakers each have there own amp and consequent volume > setting. But shouldn't I be able to adjust that kind of stuff in the > mixer? > > Yes. See above. Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ea9ec15.6060...@gmail.com
