On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Hunter Jozwiak <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I finally got the base install of Gentoo done, but I've come across a > really interesting probleing. After installing Alsa and enabling its > daemon, I had copied the asound.conf from the distro I was using on to > the system. Unfortunately, this give the side effect that ALSA is > extremely loud (I would guess top volume), and none of the sliders > seem to work. I am using my Intel high definition audio card. Has > anyone come across a similar issue? If so, how did you go about fixing > it? >
You may want to give /usr/bin/alsamixer a try, which comes with media-sound/alsa-utils. See the manpage for sample usage. man -k alsamixer alsamixer (1) - soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard driver, with ncurse...
