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tomek@vz

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Registered: 2009-07-20

Posts: 33

XFCE+Pulseaudio+ALSA=volume control?

Hy,

I gave up on OSS with my card so i'm have setup ALSA+Pulseadio on my Arch system. I'm folowing wiki on how to setup pulseaudio on my system however i stumbled on this:

and you can change the volume using this script.

#!/bin/bash
device="alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo"
case "$1" in
    "up")    # increase volume by 1000
        pacmd dump | awk --non-decimal-data '$1~/set-sink-volume/{if ($2~/'${device}'/) {if ($3+1000 > 65535) {system ("pactl "$1" '${device}' "65535)} else {system ("pactl "$1" '${device}' "$3+1000)}}}'
        ;;
    "down")  # decrease volume by 1000
        pacmd dump | awk --non-decimal-data '$1~/set-sink-volume/{if ($2~/'${device}'/) {if ($3-1000 < 0) {system ("pactl "$1" '${device}' "0)} else {system ("pactl "$1" '${device}' "$3-1000)}}}'
        ;;
    "mute")  # toggle mute
        pacmd dump|awk --non-decimal-data '$1~/set-sink-mute/{if ($2~/'${device}'/) {system ("pactl "$1" '${device}' "($3=="yes"?"no":"yes"))}}'
        ;;
esac

Where do i need to put this script for multimedia keys to work?

Last edited by tomek@vz (2011-07-10 06:36:12)

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Kremador

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Registered: 2015-06-12

Posts: 1

Re: XFCE+Pulseaudio+ALSA=volume control?

Well this is old but just in case someone else stumbles across this problem I would recommend installing xfce4-mixer for volume control and then setting Pulseaudio Mixer for playback. Solved the problem for me at least.

Cheers

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,426

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Re: XFCE+Pulseaudio+ALSA=volume control?

Please don't necrobump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

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