On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:07:52PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner > squawked: > > On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote: > >> unmute? > >> > > To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up (mplayer > > is special that way, other programs don't have the same effect). > > Mplayer? Seriously? > > Why not use amixer (purely commandline) or alsamixer (quasi-gui)? > That's what they are intended for! > > Cheers, > > W
Or why not go ahead and do things The Alsa Way (TM) and use speaker-test - command-line speaker test tone generator for ALSA: Run "speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2 -t wav" in one terminal while you adjust your levels in alsamixer in another terminal. Yes, use a tabbed terminal, such as rxvt-unicode. ;) -- "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. But properly learned, the lesson forever changes the man."
