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Re: Un-muting PulseAudio/ALSA?



On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 01:22:29PM -0700, John Conover wrote:
> 
> I'm having trouble un-muting PulseAudio/ALSA. Can someone give me a
> reference on how to fix it?
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     John
> 
> BTW, antagonizing the Google for an answer resulted in a multitude of
> witchcraft solutions, none of which worked.

Probably because it depends on how you want to interface with it. One
fairly easy method (interactive interface, doesn't depend on a graphical
desktop) is alsamixer. At a command prompt, run "alsamixer" and you'll
get a page with sliders. Use left and right to switch between sliders.
Press "m" to toggle muted (MM in the box below the slider means muted,
OO means unmuted). You may also want to use the up and down keys to
adjust the volume of the slider to a suitable level. When you're done,
press F6 to check for other soundcards (I think it's normal for ALSA and
Pulseaudio to present different soundcards. If Pulseaudio is muted, then
it won't be sending any sound to the card, even if the card itself is
fully unmuted).

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