Hi, Willem: This looks really cool. It's going to take me a little time to get it put together as I have some commitments the next couple days that will take time. But, I wanted to acknowledge your email right away. I will definitely follow through on this. This sounds like a really useful tool. And, you're correct that I have a handful of devices handy! <grin> Best, Janina Willem van der Walt writes: > So Janina, on Saturday I started writing the tool you are asking about > below. It works fine on the two machines I have tested on, but obviously, > it is new code which needs more testing. > Grab it from http://www.sanote.co.za/downloads/sam-latest.tar.bz2 > Extract: tar jxvf sam-latest.tar.bz2 > cd sam > and read the README.md for more details. > > Janina, I hope you can give it a spin as you are the person with the most > sound devices in one machine I know about. > I am no expert on alsa, so do not expect too much. > Feedback is welcome. > Kind regards, Willem > > > On Fri, 5 Apr 2019, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > [The e-mail server of the sender could not be verified (SPF Record)] > > > > Hi, Glenn: > > > > I'm not aware of a way to manage "all" through a single command. Maybe > > someone has written a tool like that. Part of the problem is that each > > sound card is different, providing more or fewer interface options. And, > > if you have more than one card, like I do, things get even more complex. > > > > Here's how to enumerate the cards you have: > > aplay -l > > > > Now, for each individual card, where x stands for the card number, you can query available controls like so: > > > > amixer -Cx controls > > > > You'l find some cards have lots of controls, and others very few. If > > you're looking only for volume, grep is your friend like so by way of > > example: > > > > amixer -c2 controls |grep -i volume > > > > Of course, if you have but one card, you don't need the -c switch. > > > > Now, to get the current setting for any control, again where x > > identifies the card, and y identifies the numeric id you discovered with > > the grep above, do like so: > > > > amixer -cx cget numid=y > > > > > > Lastly, to set the volume: > > > > amixer -cx cset numid=y [value] > > > > hth > > > > Janina > > > > Glenn At Home writes: > > > Hi, > > > I'm reading the amixer manpage and I'm unclear on how to set the volume output to 100%. > > > Is there a simple command to make sure that all is unmuted and at 100%? > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > Sent From My Tabletop > > > N0YJV shade tree computer guy > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka > > > > Linux Foundation Fellow > > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > > Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
