-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Without knowing the particulars of your sound hardware, I'd suggest trying something like this off the top of my head: amixer set Master 20% which should set your main volume control to 20% volume level. Hth maybe. Greg On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:16:02PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote: > > Hello, > I am running Gentoo Linux, with a kernel version 2.6.20-something. I haven't had any reason to switch kernels lately, and don't want to try out the Git repository stuff anyhow. > The issue I am having is that when I plug in my headphones, the volume on them is far too loud. It's almost enough to blast my eardrumbs--not literally, but it's certainly not soft or quiet. By contrast, the speaker volume is quiet and at a level I can deal with. > > I've tried fiddling with Alsamixer, as well as amixer, the latter of which doesn't make much sense to me. All I really want to do is lower the volume of the headphone audio to a reasonable level, and I'm not quite sure about how to do so. > Any tips would be appreciated. > Yours, > Zack. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Caf?. Stop by today. > http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHFsO07s9z/XlyUyARApDmAJ9+zLPTO4I3Rm2el8zHIJ1B0s0rawCgh7Nm Q7zI7zN0tkCCv+77kAyix74= =E7Vg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
