On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I finally got the base install of Gentoo done, but I've come across a
> really interesting probleing. After installing Alsa and enabling its
> daemon, I had copied the asound.conf from the distro I was using on to
> the system. Unfortunately, this give the side effect that ALSA is
> extremely loud (I would guess top volume), and none of the sliders
> seem to work. I am using my Intel high definition audio card. Has
> anyone come across a similar issue? If so, how did you go about fixing
> it?
>
You may want to give /usr/bin/alsamixer a try, which comes with
media-sound/alsa-utils.
See the manpage for sample usage.
man -k alsamixer
alsamixer (1)- soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard driver, with ncurse...