how mute sound from "Line In" at start up & when not needed

learnmelinux · 03-02-2005, 05:29 PM

Im not sure if this should be in the newbie section or not, so mods feel free to move this thread.

I have an ATI TV wonder VE tv tuner card which connects to my sound card's line in jack for audio. the problem is that when the system boots up, there is a loud static noise, and upon exiting the tv viewing program (KDEtv) the audio from the last viewed channel keeps going. How do I mute the line in at start up and when I exit KDEtv?

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 03-02-2005, 06:50 PM

Have you tried muting the line in using kmix?

learnmelinux · 03-02-2005, 06:54 PM

that is what i am doing right now, but i have go do it manually each and every time i want to mute it. i want to automate this task.

learnmelinux · 03-03-2005, 08:13 PM

bump for help

mikshaw · 03-03-2005, 10:30 PM

If you're using ALSA, the amixer program can be run from a script....something like this:
amixer set Line mute

learnmelinux · 03-04-2005, 11:02 PM

i tried typing in the amixer command, but it says command not found so im guessing that im not using ALSA. i've been doing some reading about shell scripts and i think i can do what i need with them, i just need to know what command mutes line-in, anybody?

mikshaw · 03-05-2005, 12:04 PM

try "apropos mixer" and "apropos oss"...this might give you some clues to what mixer(s) you have installed.

learnmelinux · 03-05-2005, 09:40 PM

mikshaw, this is what i got after typing in those commands:

[gord@CPE0080c6f88021-CM013439900947 gord]$ apropos mixer
SDL::Mixer (3pm) - a SDL perl extension

[gord@CPE0080c6f88021-CM013439900947 gord]$ apropos oss
B::Xref (3pm) - Generates cross reference reports for Perl program s
audacity (1) - Graphical cross-platform audio editor
flac (1) - Free Lossless Audio Codec
mkindex (1) - script to process LaTeX index and glossary files
sane-avision (5) - SANE backend for original Avision and Avision OEM sc anners (HP, Minolta, Mitsubishi, UMAX and possibly more) flatbed scanners
tiffcp (1) - copy (and possibly convert) a TIFF file
zgrep (1) - search possibly compressed files for a regular expre ssion

im have no idea what these mean though, so im still not sure how to proceed

mikshaw · 03-07-2005, 10:13 PM

It's basically telling you what programs you have installed(that have man pages) which have something to do with "oss" or "mixer" in their description.

It doesn't look like you have much that will help you adjust your mixer settings, but it could be that you just don't have much in the way of man pages.

You might try this, though I can't vouch for its useability
http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/Lmixer/