* Alsa trouble with headphones
@ Zachary Kline
` Gregory Nowak
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From: Zachary Kline @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hello,
I am running Gentoo Linux, with a kernel version 2.6.20-something. I haven't had any reason to switch kernels lately, and don't want to try out the Git repository stuff anyhow.
The issue I am having is that when I plug in my headphones, the volume on them is far too loud. It's almost enough to blast my eardrumbs--not literally, but it's certainly not soft or quiet. By contrast, the speaker volume is quiet and at a level I can deal with.
I've tried fiddling with Alsamixer, as well as amixer, the latter of which doesn't make much sense to me. All I really want to do is lower the volume of the headphone audio to a reasonable level, and I'm not quite sure about how to do so.
Any tips would be appreciated.
Yours,
Zack.
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* Re: Alsa trouble with headphones
Alsa trouble with headphones Zachary Kline
@ ` Gregory Nowak
` Janina Sajka
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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Without knowing the particulars of your sound hardware, I'd suggest
trying something like this off the top of my head:
amixer set Master 20%
which should set your main volume control to 20% volume level. Hth
maybe.
Greg
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:16:02PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am running Gentoo Linux, with a kernel version 2.6.20-something. I haven't had any reason to switch kernels lately, and don't want to try out the Git repository stuff anyhow.
> The issue I am having is that when I plug in my headphones, the volume on them is far too loud. It's almost enough to blast my eardrumbs--not literally, but it's certainly not soft or quiet. By contrast, the speaker volume is quiet and at a level I can deal with.
>
> I've tried fiddling with Alsamixer, as well as amixer, the latter of which doesn't make much sense to me. All I really want to do is lower the volume of the headphone audio to a reasonable level, and I'm not quite sure about how to do so.
> Any tips would be appreciated.
> Yours,
> Zack.
>
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` Gregory Nowak
@ ` Janina Sajka
` Gaijin
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From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
A command like:
amixer controls
should list out the various controls associated with your audio device.
You may, of course, need to pipe this:
amixer controls |more
Once you know the device that controls your headphone volume level, you
can querry it's current setting:
amixer cget numid=X
where X is the correct number which you leareed from 'amixer controls' .
Now you can reset to a more appropriate level like this:
amixer cset numid=X YY
where YY is a volume setting you want to try. When yhou have it right,
do:
alsactl store
hth
Janina
Gregory Nowak writes:
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> Without knowing the particulars of your sound hardware, I'd suggest
> trying something like this off the top of my head:
>
> amixer set Master 20%
>
> which should set your main volume control to 20% volume level. Hth
> maybe.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:16:02PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I am running Gentoo Linux, with a kernel version 2.6.20-something. I haven't had any reason to switch kernels lately, and don't want to try out the Git repository stuff anyhow.
> > The issue I am having is that when I plug in my headphones, the volume on them is far too loud. It's almost enough to blast my eardrumbs--not literally, but it's certainly not soft or quiet. By contrast, the speaker volume is quiet and at a level I can deal with.
> >
> > I've tried fiddling with Alsamixer, as well as amixer, the latter of which doesn't make much sense to me. All I really want to do is lower the volume of the headphone audio to a reasonable level, and I'm not quite sure about how to do so.
> > Any tips would be appreciated.
> > Yours,
> > Zack.
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________
> > Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Caf?. Stop by today.
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