I have seen this and have this same issue with my USB headset and when I used to use my A2DP headset, the only way I found to play with the volume was with the buttons on the side that plugged into the gnome sound manager. So maybe alsa-config?
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi, > I've bought myself a bluetooth headset and am streaming audio > to it using mplayer. How do I control its volume? Usually, hitting / > or * decreases or increases the volume, but mplayer thinks it's > sending at 0% volume and it's still a little too loud! > > The hardest part about making this thing to work at all, BTW, was getting > it to peer. If you don't use a gui desktop, you seem to be in > trouble. And most of the howtos aren't helpful -- they all assume you > have the GTK libraries or have Gnome or something, or are so old that > the codebase has moved on a lot. The trick is to put the MAC/Pin pair > into /var/lib/bluetooth/DONGLEMAC/pincodes where DONGLEMAC is the mac > address of the bluetooth adapter. > > -- > Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT > gelato.unsw.edu.au > http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT > Australia > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Regards Morgan Storey,A+, MCSE:Security. Senior Network and Security Consultant. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
