On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:00:38PM +0300, Le Tian wrote: > As long as "aumix -q" refuses to work after the latest update, what you guys > use to probe volume level? "amixer" could be an alternative but it outputs > crap, that is difficult to awk.
It isn't great, but I use 'amixer sget PCM' and awk from that. Or I use a little C utility I wrote which links to the (rather ugly) alsa library functions. Nick