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#1 2013-01-19 14:08:13

HalosGhost
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[SOLVED][ish] amixer sset Master toggle mutes all channels

As mentioned in the title, amixer appears to mute all audio channels but doesn't unmute them when run again. As a result, the media key I'd like to serve as mute/unmute only works to mute, and I need to go into alsamixer manually to unmute them.

If I understood correctly, amixer sset Master toggle would only affect the master channel, when that obviously isn't what is happening. Is anyone experiencing this issue, does anyone know how I could change this behavior?

Any and all help is appreciated, as always.

[Edit]: I've switched to aur/ponymix as it appears to function properly.[/Edit]

All the best,

-HG

Last edited by HalosGhost (2013-01-19 14:24:05)

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#2 2013-01-22 09:58:57

ball
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Re: [SOLVED][ish] amixer sset Master toggle mutes all channels

I experience exactly the same issue as you. Until now I didn't find any solution to this... :-(

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#3 2013-01-22 21:38:26

HalosGhost
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Re: [SOLVED][ish] amixer sset Master toggle mutes all channels

ball wrote:

I experience exactly the same issue as you. Until now I didn't find any solution to this... :-(

I've been led to believe it is an upstream bug with alsa, and that amixer itself is largely broken in this respect. For that reason, I would strongly suggest (as was suggested to me) to switch to aur/ponymix, as listed in the OP.

All the best,

-HG

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#4 2018-06-22 01:51:57

ykyuen
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Re: [SOLVED][ish] amixer sset Master toggle mutes all channels

I finally get it working by following the solution suggested in this post.
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2243127

Instead of using the amixer command, i toggle the master volume by:

pactl set-sink-mute 0 toggle

Hope this works. smile

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#5 2018-06-22 01:57:25

jasonwryan
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Re: [SOLVED][ish] amixer sset Master toggle mutes all channels

Please don't necrobump threads, this one is five and a half years old and solved: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22


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