Re: Tool to configure sound

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:32:18PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:

[...]
> 
> That is indeed the normal output, so speaker-test seems to think
> everything is OK. What do you get from running "amixer"?

Florian, hello.  How nice to have your help once again.

Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 230 [90%]
  Front Right: Playback 230 [90%]
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 24 [77%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 24 [77%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 19 [61%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 19 [61%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 4 [13%] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 4 [13%] [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 31
  Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [off]
  Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 31
  Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Mic' 'Line'
  Item0: 'Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Mic' 'Line'
  Item0: 'Mic'

I assume this is listing the results of my last wild click-on-
anything-to-see-if-it-helps session with alsamixergui.

Needless to say, nothing did help.  Perhaps the sound is just muted 
because Debian doesn't know about the blue function key things on 
the laptop.  I have tried pressing the speaker-related ones, but also 
to no avail.  Debian doesn't know about the screen brightness keys 
either -- gives 2 error messages for every keypress -- but they still
work on the brightness.

-- 
richard