On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 16:07 +0200, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:01:46 -0400 > Carl Fink <c...@finknetwork.com> wrote: > > No, it's a well-known problem with PulseAudio. It gives max volumes > > much, much lower than Windows for no special reason I know of. > > Is it possible for me to just kill the PulseAudio server when I'm > starting certain applications, or force them to use ALSA? > > > Robert: if you're using Gnome, run gnome-volume-control. You can use > > the slider at the top to set volume to "more than 100%". (Yes, I know > > that's stupid.) Unfortunately the system will forget this setting if > > you ever lower the volume. > > Right now, I'm running LXDE, but I do have gnome-alsamixer installed, > and all of those are at max. Considering this is little more than a > graphical frontend for the command line alsamixer, I'm thinking you > mean the applet. But the package gnome-applets pulls in 357 MB of > dependencies. Is there a simple way to do the same from the command > line? I have plenty of hard disk space - it just seems like a huge > waste. > > Thanks, > > -- > rbmj >
Have you tried alsa-utils package? It provides these commands: /usr/bin/aplay /usr/bin/amixer /usr/bin/arecordmidi /usr/bin/aseqnet /usr/bin/alsamixer /usr/bin/aconnect /usr/bin/speaker-test /usr/bin/iecset /usr/bin/amidi /usr/bin/aplaymidi /usr/bin/aseqdump To set volume you may type e.g. amixer sset Master 80% amixer sset PCM 100% -- Tomas Kral <thomas.k...@email.cz> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1312999579.2713.6.camel@lynx.localhost.localdomain