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tasty_minerals

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Registered: 2011-03-30

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[SOLVED] Amixer fails to load after update(

I use hotkeys to control volume in my system via xbindkeys. Now after I updated the system my "amixer" cannot be run as normal user, while I can run it as root.
While a normal user it gives me an error.

amixer: Mixer attach default error: Invalid argument

to volume up I use "amixer -q sset Master 5+"
How can I get it work?
And can somebody advice me a STABLE text mode volume mixer, cause later I used aumix that failed after update too.

Last edited by tasty_minerals (2011-08-27 07:29:53)

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Stebalien

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Re: [SOLVED] Amixer fails to load after update(

None of these may work but as amixer works as root you should give them a try:

1. make sure that you are in the audio group.
2. make sure that amixer is not an alias (`type amixer`).
3. try removing ~/.asoundrc if it exists.

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gkrnours

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Registered: 2009-03-23

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Re: [SOLVED] Amixer fails to load after update(

I have the same issue since a few days, and removing .asoundrc solve it. Thank \o/

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