A command like: amixer controls should list out the various controls associated with your audio device. You may, of course, need to pipe this: amixer controls |more Once you know the device that controls your headphone volume level, you can querry it's current setting: amixer cget numid=X where X is the correct number which you leareed from 'amixer controls' . Now you can reset to a more appropriate level like this: amixer cset numid=X YY where YY is a volume setting you want to try. When yhou have it right, do: alsactl store hth Janina Gregory Nowak writes: > -----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----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina at a11y.org Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org
