-----Original Message----- From: Craig McLean <craig@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:56:55PM +0100 To For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Switching on/off the sound from the command line Maybe this may suffice... Add these 2 lines to your ~/.bashrc alias mute='amixer set Master mute' alias unmute='amixer set Master unmute' HTH -- vikram... |||||||| |||||||| ^^'''''^^||root||^^^'''''''^^ // \\ )) //(( \\// \\ // /\\ || \\ || / )) (( \\ -- We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything. -- O ~|~ = Registered Linux User #285795