Cannot control volume

General · 08-26-2005, 09:16 PM

I bought a new pair of headphones. The plug is slightly larger than the one on my old pair of headphones, so it fits in a different hole in the back of my computer (the hole is color-coded black). I can hear the music perfectly, however, I cannot control the volume using any volume controller found in Linux (I even muted every single channel in the controller simultaneously and it had no effect). This includes XMMS, RealPlayer, GNOME Volume Control. GNOME Volume Control can adjust the bass and treble levels, but none of the sliders controls the sound volume. The XMMS graphical equalizer does effect the sound coming out, but it does not seem to control the volume.

flower.Hercules · 08-26-2005, 09:33 PM

I don't think any of us can answer that question unless you tell us two or three things more:

1) What headphones are you using?
2) What sound card are you using?
3) What sound drivers (ALSA OSS etc) are you using?

Finally, a simple fix would be to get a jack converter from RadioShak, they are cheap and it would make it fit in the smaller hole.

General · 08-27-2005, 12:07 AM

1) Koss Hi-Fidelity Headphones, UR21C
2) Creative Labs ‎SB Live!
3) ALSA, using snd-emu10k1 driver

flower.Hercules · 08-27-2005, 12:22 AM

Have you tried adjusting anything from the terminal with alsamixer?

General · 08-27-2005, 10:35 AM

Okay, I ran alsamixer. I tested all of the dials, although I don't know what most of them mean. The one called "Wave Surround" controls the volume. Is there a way to configure the other programs to control this?

flower.Hercules · 08-27-2005, 10:59 AM

You can see if Gnome has some kind of personalization checkboxes (like Windows) in its volume control, however, I don't know if XMMS and the others can be configured the same.

Here is a nifty little code, if you would like, that can adjust the volume in amixer via a shortcut key (preferably a volume control multimedia key)

Code:

#! /bin/bash
      ##################
      # Adjust Volume Up  
      ##################

      amixer set 'Wave Control' 1+
      exit 0

Code:

#! /bin/bash
      ####################
      # Adjust Volume Down 
      ####################

      amixer set 'Wave Control' 1-
      exit 0

HTH