Not quite solving the problem, but: amixer|fgrep -i simp should give you the names of all controls and adding another |fgrep -i speak might limmit it further. Regards, Willem On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Keith Hinton wrote: > Hi to all on the Speakup mailing list, > This is a very general question. How do you unmute all the audio > controls? One problem that I will have with my laptop is this. > The sound card has a PC Speaker control that generates a PC speaker > tone through it. I use this generally for knowing if I'm at the left > hand margin of the BASH shell. While other people find it annoying, I > find it useful for this personally. Only previous versions of Udev > detect it, beginning with Linux kernel 2.6.26. The GRML-kernel, used > in GRML-2008.11, uses 2.6.26. In that case, my laptop sound card works > great. However, I still don't know how to successfully unmute all the > necessary controls. The PCM and master volumes should work, however I > will require my PC speaker control to work. I don't know what > Alsa-mixer calls that type Of control, as many laptops do not have an > onboard PC speaker. Therefore, I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Is > there a rappid command I could send to alsamixer? I.e. Alsamixer > Control1; control2; control3; control4; contro.l5; control 6; control > seven; control 8; control 9; control 10; unmute /dev/audio? Or > something. > Well, on second thought, maybe not all the audio controls, but I don't > want to go changing volume levels, I just want them unmuted. What > should I do? If I can quickly do this on the LiveCD before really > using it, I don't care about the glaring defect. The card in my > laptop, according to Windows, is an Realtek HD Audio card. Would the > PCM and master volumes be enough to provide audio output? I guess that > testing is the only way to determan this, but I'd like a more > practical for sure to work solution. I won't go hunting around the > Internet to get this working, I really don't have any time to do this. > Thanks again. Regards, --Keith > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.
