guys u gotta helpme out.....iv got xfce4 as my window manager...and im trying to listen some music with the head phones ...but im not able to lower the system sound....any idea how can i do it..iv got xmms1.2.10...iv even tried alsamixer in the CLI but its not working ..may be im doin wrong

thanks
danish

Fedora Core 3 probably uses alsa... you could try running "alsamixergui", "gnome-alsamixer" or "alsamixer" from the console. Try to change all settings that might be relevant. If "alsamixer" refused to start, then you don't probably have alsa installed. You could also try starting the mixer program as root, to see if it is a privilege problem. If it is, check which user groups (e.g. "sound", "mixer", "disk") are available and add your user to the appropriate one. Then log out and log in again and try adjusting volume again.

Also check that you don't have any Sound daemon (artsd or esd) running - they might cause troubles.

i tried alsamixer...it showed me a couple of options...iv brought the level of one such option....will try it out and report it

doesnt seem to work