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gwaar

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2011-02-11

Posts: 21

Sound becomes unbalanced using amixer to change volume

I have small dial on the front of my computer (Acer 5920) that maps to XF86AudioRaise and -Lower when turned to the left or right respectively. I mapped it in xbindkeys to the command 'amixer set Master +/-5%'. The only problem is that when raising or lowering the volume, sometimes only one channel gets set because the key presses are registering too fast I guess. I'm wondering if there is a way to keep both channels in sync, or otherwise to slow down the repetitions of that key. Thanks much.

Ergarach

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Registered: 2025-12-20

Posts: 1

Re: Sound becomes unbalanced using amixer to change volume

hello, i had the same problem trying to bind a dial to control the volume of my system using amixer, but after using pactl directly to control audio this never happened again.
The command that i use is "pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +1%" to raise the audio just swapping + for - to lower. Hope this helps!

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,549

Re: Sound becomes unbalanced using amixer to change volume

Thanks for the input, but using this opportunity to close this old thread.

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