Laptop volume control screw-up

Harry Wert harry.wert at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 14:00:11 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 18:13 +0100, (=?iso-8859-1?q?=60=60-=5F-=B4=B4?=)
-- Fernando wrote:
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> Hi Harry.
> I hope I'm still on time to try to help you.
> Right click on the sound icon, next to the hour/date panel.
> Choose "Preferences", and select your sound card device (probably Alsa).
> Then choose "Master". I think that you might have choosen another control, and 
> thats why it aint working.
> Let us know how it goes.
> 
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007 21:12:11 Harry Wert wrote:
> > All has been well with Ubuntu Feisty release until I apparently
> > inadvertently fouled up the laptop volume control - how I do not know.
> > In any event I still get the on-screen display depicting volume control
> > when I press the appropriate button; ie, "mute", "volume increase", or
> > "volume decrease". The downside is the sound is now unaffected. I can
> > still point to the panel which displays the volume symbol with the mouse
> > and everything is correctly controlled.  I have done the usual looking
> > for an "accidentally installed" mixer, but the only one I can find is
> > the one for Gnome - which is correct.  Can anyone suggest how I can
> > isolate this problem.  It's trivial but annoying!
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Harry
> 
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Thank you very much for the response - that was the problem! Although it
was a minor inconvenience, it was very annoying and I had overlooked the
obvious solution. Again thanks for your time and assistance.

Harry Wert
Physicist






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