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soylent_green_is_hamster

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Registered: 2006-11-15

Posts: 109

Application volume controls do not work

HI, hoping someone could help me with this.

I am using ALSA, seemingly without any problems, however, I can only adjust the sound levels using alsamixer. Applications such as mplayer and sonata cannot seem to adjust their volume level. Their volume sliders just do nothing?

can anyone explain to me what's going on?

cheers!

Borosai

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From: Sandy Appendix, U.S.A.

Registered: 2006-06-15

Posts: 227

Re: Application volume controls do not work

Try adding the following lines to the following configuration files (they will activate the software volume control):

#~/.mplayer/config#
softvol=yes
softvol-max=110
volstep=5

#/etc/mpd.conf#
mixer_type             "software"

You will find the mpd.conf entry already there, but you will need to uncomment it if you haven't already. These are the only things that come to mind. You may need to restart MPD for the new setting to take effect (not sure). The keyboard shortcuts in mplayer for volume control are 9 (volume down by the percentage given in the volstep option) and 0 (volume up). There is another pair in the numeric keypad area, but I'm not exactly sure which ones...you can find them in the mplayer man page. I hope this helps, because I have no more ideas.

soylent_green_is_hamster

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Registered: 2006-11-15

Posts: 109

Re: Application volume controls do not work

thanks! - that works great

Borosai

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From: Sandy Appendix, U.S.A.

Registered: 2006-06-15

Posts: 227

Re: Application volume controls do not work

No problem.