On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:06:19 +0200 Tomas Kral <thomas.k...@email.cz> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 16:07 +0200, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:01:46 -0400 > > Carl Fink <c...@finknetwork.com> wrote: > > > No, it's a well-known problem with PulseAudio. It gives max > > > volumes much, much lower than Windows for no special reason I > > > know of. > > > > Is it possible for me to just kill the PulseAudio server when I'm > > starting certain applications, or force them to use ALSA? > > > > > Robert: if you're using Gnome, run gnome-volume-control. You can > > > use the slider at the top to set volume to "more than 100%". > > > (Yes, I know that's stupid.) Unfortunately the system will forget > > > this setting if you ever lower the volume. > > > > Right now, I'm running LXDE, but I do have gnome-alsamixer > > installed, and all of those are at max. Considering this is little > > more than a graphical frontend for the command line alsamixer, I'm > > thinking you mean the applet. But the package gnome-applets pulls > > in 357 MB of dependencies. Is there a simple way to do the same > > from the command line? I have plenty of hard disk space - it just > > seems like a huge waste. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > rbmj > > > > Have you tried alsa-utils package? > It provides these commands: > /usr/bin/aplay > /usr/bin/amixer > /usr/bin/arecordmidi > /usr/bin/aseqnet > /usr/bin/alsamixer > /usr/bin/aconnect > /usr/bin/speaker-test > /usr/bin/iecset > /usr/bin/amidi > /usr/bin/aplaymidi > /usr/bin/aseqdump > > To set volume you may type e.g. > amixer sset Master 80% > amixer sset PCM 100% > I already have used alsamixer to set literally everything to 100%: $ amixer Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 87 Mono: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 87 Mono: Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 87 Mono: Front Left: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 87 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume penum Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Mono: Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB] Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB] Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0 Capabilities: volume penum Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: 0 - 3 Front Left: 3 [100%] [36.00dB] Front Right: 3 [100%] [36.00dB] Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch penum Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 31 Front Left: Capture 31 [100%] [30.00dB] [on] Front Right: Capture 31 [100%] [30.00dB] [on] -- rbmj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110810135601.54b30...@blairasus.mason.homeunix.org