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namelessone

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Registered: 2009-12-17

Posts: 39

Can't control playback volume with amixer [SOLVED]

In an effort to ditch gnome3 I installed mpd and mplayer to replace rhythmbox and totem. I can play music fine, but changing the volume in amixer/alsamixer does not actually change the volume of the music. Sonata, an mpd client, states the following when trying to change volume: "[52@0] {setvol} problems setting volume"

This problem happens in mplayer, too, so I am hesitant to think that I configured mpd incorrectly. Any ideas of what I might have done wrong?

Here's the output of lsmod | grep snd

snd_seq_dummy           1455  0 
snd_seq_oss            28052  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      5332  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                48705  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          5100  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     22378  1 
snd_hda_codec_realtek   294191  1 
snd_pcm_oss            37890  0 
snd_mixer_oss          14851  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hda_intel          21738  2 
snd_hda_codec          73739  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               6134  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                71032  4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              18992  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    55132  17 thinkpad_acpi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               5986  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7017  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

Last edited by namelessone (2011-05-23 19:18:12)

Miche

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Registered: 2009-04-28

Posts: 23

Re: Can't control playback volume with amixer [SOLVED]

if you haven't yet, take a look Wiki page for ALSA.

hope it helps

namelessone

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Registered: 2009-12-17

Posts: 39

Re: Can't control playback volume with amixer [SOLVED]

if you haven't yet, take a look Wiki page for ALSA.

hope it helps

Thanks, Miche. I discovered that mplayer was configured to use oss and not alsa, so of course changing the volume with alsamixer didn't do anything.