Hallo, Atte Andr? Jensen hat gesagt: // Atte Andr? Jensen wrote: > I have an Edirol UA-1A usb soundcard, that I started using in my server > with mpd as a music playing device. Most mpd clients has a volume knob > that worked with the crappy build-in soundcard, but not with the usb > one. I seem to remember that I never saw anything in my gnome mixer for > this soundcard, and also has a vague idea that it simply might not have > a mixer buildin or it's not supported by alsa. Many USB soundcards don't have a hardware mixer. Generally you can trust ALSA: If "alsamixer -c <cardnum>" doesn't report any mixer elements, that the card doesn't have any. > Long story short: Is this just me misconfiguring it (if so what could be > wrong) or is there a software solution to allow me to change the volume > of the soundcard from mpd clients? There is a "softvol" plugin you may like: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Softvol Ciao -- Frank _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user