Peter Plessas wrote: > when decreasing the master volume of my HDA-Intel [1] card using amixer: > [1]Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) That is the controller, but the mixer controls are implemented in the codec. Anyway, there is no codec that implements a combined volume/mute control. > I can't get to minus infinity (silent). -46.50dB is the lowest possible > value, and I can still hear sound coming from its output. I know that I > can mute the output but want to do this with one single key shortcut > (hence executing one command as the one above) to fade down the master > volume until silence. > > Does anyone have an idea how to make this work? Is there a script around > that queries the actual value of the master volume and decides whether > to decrease it further or issue the 'mute' command from amixer? You can easily write such a script. The current volume is available with "amixer get ..."; use something like this: if amixer get Master | grep "Front Left: Playback 0 " > /dev/null; then amixer set Master mute else amixer set Master 3- dB fi Best regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
