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On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:07:52PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: |
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> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked: |
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> > On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote: |
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> >> unmute? |
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> >> |
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> > To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up (mplayer |
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> > is special that way, other programs don't have the same effect). |
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> Mplayer? Seriously? |
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> |
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> Why not use amixer (purely commandline) or alsamixer (quasi-gui)? |
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> That's what they are intended for! |
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> Cheers, |
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> |
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> W |
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Or why not go ahead and do things The Alsa Way (TM) and use speaker-test - |
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command-line speaker test tone generator for ALSA: |
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Run "speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -t wav" in one terminal while you adjust |
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your levels in alsamixer in another terminal. Yes, use a tabbed terminal, such |
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as rxvt-unicode. ;) |
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-- |
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"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the |
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lesson afterward. But properly learned, the lesson forever changes |
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the man." |
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