On Saturday 07 October 2006 14:41, Phill Coxon wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm using a small peice of software
> (http://rs200-decoder.sourceforge.net/) to transfer data from my Polar
> heart rate monitor watch to my Ubuntu laptop.
>
> The watch transmits the data audibly and rs200-decode records it
> on /dev/dsp using the laptop internal microphone and saves the data.
>
> For some reason, every time I run rs200-decode it sets both the
> microphone recording level and the speaker outputs to 100% resulting in
> nasty (and painfull) feedback.
>
> Can someone tell me how to set default volume and recording levels in
> Ubuntu?
>
> I've tried using alsamixer and that hasn't worked.
>
> Otherwise, any other suggestions on what might be causing the jump in
> volume settings and how to set it at a lower level?
[I] media-sound/smixer
Available versions: 1.0.1
Installed: 1.0.1
Homepage: http://centerclick.org/programs/smixer/
Description: A command-line tool for setting and viewing mixer
settings
HTH
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CS