Hi Rick; I simply had pulseaudio on mute :-) Of course I found that out by using pavucontrol from the command line as that is not in my menu. Thanks for the help! Ken Wolcott On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 21:15, Rick Sewill <rsewill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 22:32 -0600, Rick Sewill wrote: >> I have found audio, in general, and pulseaudio, in particular, tricky. >> >> I try to divide audio into parts, alsa is one part, pulseaudio another. >> >> I believe many software programs use alsa. >> I believe alsa, in turn, uses pulseaudio. >> >> I must add a caveat. I believe programs can be configured to use alsa. >> I believe some programs can be configured to use pulseaudio, bypassing >> alsa. I believe some programs can be configured to bypass pulseaudio, >> and go straight to the hardware device drivers. >> >> Assuming your configuration uses alsa, which in turn goes to pulseaudio, >> I believe you have to look at both alsa and pulseaudio. >> >> For alsa, do you have alsa-utils installed? >> For me, it is rpm -q -i alsa-utils: >> rsewill@rsewill:~ <2:18> $ rpm -q -i alsa-utils >> Name : alsa-utils Relocations: (not >> relocatable) >> Version : 1.0.22 Vendor: Fedora Project >> Release : 1.fc12 Build Date: Sat 02 Jan 2010 >> 03:26:02 >> .... >> >> If you this installed, there is a program, amixer, please type >> amixer >> >> When I type amixer, I get the following: >> rsewill@rsewill:~ <2:16> $ amixer >> Simple mixer control 'Master',0 >> Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined penum >> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right >> Limits: Playback 0 - 65536 >> Mono: >> Front Left: Playback 15601 [24%] [on] >> Front Right: Playback 15601 [24%] [on] >> Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 >> Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined penum >> Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right >> Limits: Capture 0 - 65536 >> Front Left: Capture 32845 [50%] [on] >> Front Right: Capture 32845 [50%] [on] >> "Master" seems to control output volume for me. >> "Capture" seems to control input from my microphone. >> >> For audio output, >> I want "Front Left" and "Front Right" of "Master" >> to have a certain volume level, in my case 24%, and be on. >> I actually control volume by adjusting the volume of "Master". >> I leave pulseaudio alone once I have it set the way I want it. >> >> For my microphone, I control the volume using "Capture". >> I leave pulseaudio alone once I have it set the way I want it. >> >> I believe this is only part of the picture. >> Alsa, in turn goes to pulseaudio. >> >> There is a pulseaudio volume control applet. >> Do you have pavucontrol installed? >> It is found in the rpm pavucontrol, for me >> rpm -q -i pavucontrol yields >> rsewill@rsewill:~ <2:21> $ rpm -q -i pavucontrol >> Name : pavucontrol Relocations: (not >> relocatable) >> Version : 0.9.10 Vendor: Fedora Project >> Release : 1.fc12 Build Date: Wed 14 Oct 2009 >> 03:11:07 PM CDT >> .... >> >> When I run this applet, either from the command line, as pavucontrol, >> or from the menu--it is found as >> Applications->Sounds and Video-->Pulse Audio Volume Control >> >> an applet pops up, with 5 tabs, >> "Playback","Recording","Output Devices","Input Devices","Configuration" >> Please look at the "Output Devices" tab, >> show "All Output Devices", >> Please make sure the device is not muted--if the device is muted >> the "Front Left" and "Front Right" lines will be greyed out on a device. >> Please adjust the volume of this device, as appropriate. >> For me, I have the volume of my device adjusted to 24% for both >> "Front Left" and "Front Right". >> >> I have not found man pages for pavucontrol or amixer. >> I can make educated guesses what the tabs for pavucontrol mean, >> but I would be guessing. >> >> You will have different hardware. >> You may get different devices to examine. >> Hope you can adapt what I see on my system to what you have. >> > > I need to make one correction, > showing that I do not understand audio even yet. > > I just learned, when I change the sound, using alsa controls, alsa > changes the volume on the pulseaudio controls shown by pavucontrol. > > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
