Can't find the post about the volume controls...

[chiphart]

I've looked and looked but I can't find a post that was here in the linux section where someone mentioned how to turn on the external volume controller for Linux? That's a feature I miss dearly from my Dell...does anyone a) know where that post is hiding or b) know the answer?

Thanks.

[laclasse]

What drivers are u using ? Alsa ? If so, launch alsamixer as root, and ya have all volume controls there in a terminal. Use the arrows, and M to mute, press ESC when done, save settings with alsactl store.

If not Alsa, then install/run aumix ( or aumix-gtk) and you should find it. Hope that helps.

[chiphart]

Originally posted by laclasse
What drivers are u using ? Alsa ? If so, launch alsamixer as root, and ya have all volume controls there in a terminal. Use the arrows, and M to mute, press ESC when done, save settings with alsactl store.

If not Alsa, then install/run aumix ( or aumix-gtk) and you should find it. Hope that helps.

No, I was having problems with the Alsa drivers (I couldn't get XMMS or Q3 to work under KDE) so I just turned them off and everything works great.

Do you mean the arrows on the front of my laptop?

Thanks.

[laclasse]

Umm, This sound like a Sound Server problem. The KDE desktop runs the Artsd warapper sound deamon, and Gnome runs esd sound server.

I will advise ANYBODY to kill these services, as they are confusing the alsa and OSS sound modules ( as posted by Alan Cox on kernel devel mailing list ).

# killall artsd
#

# killall esd
#

Issue this in a term as root, while in your favorite desktop. Sound should work now. Let me know.

This has to be re issued at all boot, or some action has to be taken to remove these services in your init scripts dir ( /etc/rcS.d, /etc/rcX.d, where X is your runlevel number ).

If you want the front panel audio DJ buttons to work with Alsa, you need to install lineakd. Kde provides a GUI Front End called klineakd.

Anyhow here is the link :

http://lineak.sourceforge.net/

Hope that helps. :banana:

[chiphart]

Fortunately, the new KDE gives you a simply checkbox somewhere in the Control Panel to turn off the artsD. Worked like a charm for me.

Thanks for the lineak link. That's what I was looking for.

[chiphart]

LaClasse - do you know what keyboard to use with lineakd? There doesn't appear to be a Sager/Clevo/etc. entry.

Thanks.