On Sunday 19 February 2006 16:34, Timothy Murphy wrote:g GNOME of course.) > > No, I am using KDE (under FC-4). > When I right-click on the speaker icon in my panel, > I am offered the choice of Show Mixer Window. > On choosing this, I obtain a screen with 16 sliding switches, > each with an icon which presumably is meant to indicate its purpose, > although the right-hand four have the same icon. > > When I go to the Switches tab, there are 7 columns > with a coloured icon at the top. > The colours are: red, green and yellow. > At the moment, for example, > the External Amplifier colour is yellow. > If I click on it, it goes green. > > I have no idea what these colours mean - > that was my original query. > Timothy, this is exactly why I always recommend running alsamixer from a user console. What you have seen is a front-end for it, but frankly the feedback there is non-existent. With the text version you get meaningful labels. Look out for [MM] which means muted. Use arrows to move along the row of controls, and space-bar to change a switch. You may have to play around quite a bit to get it right - some combinations of switches and sliders give you white noise - but you should probably be able to get a result if your hardware is OK. 'alsactl store' will save your settings when you've finished. Anne
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