Questions tagged [amixer]
Questions related to amixer, which is a command-line program for controlling the mixer in the ALSA soundcard driver. It supports multiple sound cards.
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Volume control problems on laptop
Installed Ubuntu on Huawei matebook s14, everything seems fine except volume control.
When pressing volume up/down buttons in alsamixer 'Speaker' mixer goes up/down, but it doesn't do anything. '...
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Setting audio output level fails within tmux
I am following this question to set my volume levels from the command line. I need to be able to set the volume from within a tmux session (actually from a node process running in tmux).
When I run ...
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Volume control problem
When you change the sound through the system mixer, the speaker value changes, but the headphone value remains the same, because of this the sound is distorted, but if you change both of these values ...
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changing loudness with amixer
I want to set the loudness with amixer on my Ubuntu 20.04 system, Kernel 5.15. amixer prints the the "Simple mixer control 'PCM', 0" and "Simple mixer control 'IEC958', 0". But no ...
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Muting audio with amixer, there is a chance that audio channels become unbalanced?
I have 3 commands set as keyboard shortcuts:
amixer -D pulse set Master 1+ toggle
amixer -D pulse sset Master 5%-
amixer -D pulse sset Master 5%+
If I mash the 3 keys that trigger the above 3 ...
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No Audio Ubuntu 18.04 with HDA Nvidia Card
So I recently changed from Windows to Ubuntu and I am having sound issues. I don't have any sound at all. I am using NVidia Drivers so I know that may cause issues but I want to know if there is any ...
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Get percent volume
I am trying to show the percent of my sound volume on my desktop.
Using amixer get Master
amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Master',0
pavucontrol works, but it causes the light for my webcam ...
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Can't get alsamixer working although all config files look okay
So, first of all, this is output of my aplay -l:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #...
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AlsaMixer Input Settings Reset on Reboot
I am working on an audio project with the Raspberry Pi 3 (running latest version of Raspbian Jessie) using the AudioInjector SoundCard(http://www.audioinjector.net/) for Input/Output. I am trying to ...
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Ubuntu on Thinkpad W530
Is this a good idea? I'm new to Linux but am not afraid of the research and work to get it working properly, presuming it will eventually work. I've seen it's not certified by Ubuntu, but the W540 is.
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ALSA Mixer settings won't save (Kubuntu)
Since I've been using Linux on my Macbook I've noticed that there's a red light constantly shining out of the headphone port on the left side of the machine. This doesn't happen on OS X, I've checked.
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Adding applications section under "Sound" as an indicator
May i learn any way to achieve that via a GUI indicator and have a sound mixer for each of the applications (such as spotify and skype) to set the volume differently?? Think the section shown on ...
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control volume using python script
I can control volume using this command through terminal amixer -D pulse sset Master 0% .
My question that how can I do the same thing using python script.