From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from apollo.csir.co.za (mx-4.csir.co.za [146.64.10.99]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5AEC10BA3 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:16:21 -0400 (EDT) X-CSIR-MailScanner-Watermark: 1238141767.46526@ectisaGr8l9iQ0hlEwNEkg Received: from localhost.localdomain ([146.64.19.125]) by apollo.csir.co.za (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n2K8G6AC032586 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:16:06 +0200 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n2K8EeDk010205 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:14:40 +0200 Received: from localhost (wvdwalt@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id n2K8Ed2Y010200 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:14:40 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: wvdwalt owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:14:39 +0200 (SAST) From: Willem van der Walt X-X-Sender: wvdwalt@localhost.localdomain To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: How to unmute multiple controls at once In-Reply-To: <4af646bf0903190916i5b8c019ck1c4ac4076756f178@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4af646bf0903190916i5b8c019ck1c4ac4076756f178@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0rc1 (apollo.csir.co.za [146.64.10.99]); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:16:06 +0200 (SAST) X-CSIR-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-CSIR-MailScanner-ID: n2K8G6AC032586 X-CSIR-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CSIR-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-CSIR-MailScanner-From: wvdwalt@csir.co.za X-Spam-Status: No X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:16:24 -0000 Not quite solving the problem, but: amixer|fgrep -i simp should give you the names of all controls and adding another |fgrep -i speak might limmit it further. Regards, Willem On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Keith Hinton wrote: > Hi to all on the Speakup mailing list, > This is a very general question. How do you unmute all the audio > controls? One problem that I will have with my laptop is this. > The sound card has a PC Speaker control that generates a PC speaker > tone through it. I use this generally for knowing if I'm at the left > hand margin of the BASH shell. While other people find it annoying, I > find it useful for this personally. Only previous versions of Udev > detect it, beginning with Linux kernel 2.6.26. The GRML-kernel, used > in GRML-2008.11, uses 2.6.26. In that case, my laptop sound card works > great. However, I still don't know how to successfully unmute all the > necessary controls. The PCM and master volumes should work, however I > will require my PC speaker control to work. I don't know what > Alsa-mixer calls that type Of control, as many laptops do not have an > onboard PC speaker. Therefore, I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Is > there a rappid command I could send to alsamixer? I.e. Alsamixer > Control1; control2; control3; control4; contro.l5; control 6; control > seven; control 8; control 9; control 10; unmute /dev/audio? Or > something. > Well, on second thought, maybe not all the audio controls, but I don't > want to go changing volume levels, I just want them unmuted. What > should I do? If I can quickly do this on the LiveCD before really > using it, I don't care about the glaring defect. The card in my > laptop, according to Windows, is an Realtek HD Audio card. Would the > PCM and master volumes be enough to provide audio output? I guess that > testing is the only way to determan this, but I'd like a more > practical for sure to work solution. I won't go hunting around the > Internet to get this working, I really don't have any time to do this. > Thanks again. Regards, --Keith > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.