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Well , I ve been serching every where but could not find a solution to my problem , wish someone has one..
Well , I am using Gnome 2.8 on Debian.I ve a creative soundblaster live 5.1 card and 5.1 speakers.I use Alsa (emu10k1 driver) and xmms to play mp3 files like many others do.
Whenever i mute the gnome system sound and xmms ' sound , i can still hear it from my back 2 speakers.And when i try to turn the volume on , only the sound coming from front speakers increase. And wheni turn it down , only the front speakerssound decrease.
I have tried to configure my alsamixer.There are lots of channels on it but when i turn of three of them , i can mute the sound.(pcm , wave surround and wave center).
All I want to do is , make all the sound mute when i press my mute button on my keyboard and increase or decrease all the sound by pressing the increase or decrease button.
What i need is something that will control those 3 alsamixer channels .Or something else that will do the job...
Distribution: Xubuntu 9.10, Gentoo 2.6.27 (AMD64), Darwin 9.0.0 (arm)
Posts: 1,152
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My computer does something like this to. only the pcm level controls the volume (no surround enabled) but wave channels would be pcm as well. I use aumix to adjust the pcm level:
mute:
aumix -w 0
up:
aumix -w +10
down:
aumix -w -10
I set my system up to run these commands when I press my media keys.
First of all , thanks for your reply johnson_steve..
I ve tried to run the mute command that u said from console , but still the same thing happens.I still can hear the volume from the back 2 speakers and the center speaker.
well , i ve used the commands you told , it works but mutes or unmutes only the front 2 speakers..
I can still hear the sound from the back 2...
You can see what i are the messages after i used those commands
under@debian:~$ amixer set PCM mute
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Front Left: Playback 30 [97%] [off]
Front Right: Playback 30 [97%] [off]
under@debian:~$ amixer set PCM unmute
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Front Left: Playback 30 [97%] [on]
Front Right: Playback 30 [97%] [on]
As i said before there must be an "alsa way" to do that.. or an amixer command to mute or unmute all 5 speakers..
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