On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:21:45PM -0500, Howard P Holden wrote: > I have an SBLive 5.1 and Altec-Lansing GT-5051 speakers. > > If I try to control the volume of myhth music or mythtv or while > playing a dvd, only one set of speakers -- the rear or Surround, I > think -- is affected. The same is true if I use mplayer or aplay from > the command line. > Experimenting with alsamixer suggests that the PCM slider only > controls the "Wave Surround" output. > > I've been all over the archives, alsa.org, alsa.opensrc.org and > mythtv.info, and tried to understand .asoundrc. There's lots of stuff > about outputting to S/Pdif and AC3 passthrough that turns my brain to > alphabet soup. > > It seems that if I set my volumes in alsamixer, myth, alsa and > mplayer are all smart enough to play whatever media I ask in the > appropriate format. I just want to be able to turn the volume up/down > with a single slider (remote) or mute with a single button. I can do > that when I play music with "Music Player", which came with KDE. How > do I do it with alsa?
Tell Myth to control volume via the Master slider, not the PCM slider? Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> General, IIRC. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
