Pulse Audio Sound Levels

Basil Chupin blchupin at iinet.net.au
Thu Mar 14 14:25:30 UTC 2013


On 15/03/13 00:14, Lanoxx wrote:
>
> On 14/03/13 01:24, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On 03/13/2013 07:35 PM, Lanoxx wrote:
>>>
>>> On 13/03/13 21:23, Ric Moore wrote:
>>
>>>> What does alsamixer show you?? Maybe the aux input is muted there?
>>>> Happens. Ric
>>>>
>>> Here is what I do:
>>> alsamixer -> F6 -> "USB Multimedia Audio Device" -> F4 (Capture): I can
>>> see three categories: "Line", "Mic" and "S/PDIF in" the first two (line
>>> and mic are set to 94), the "S/PDIF" section does not have a volume bar
>>> to change. Additinally the all sections show "L Capture R" in red 
>>> letters.
>>>
>>> When I open pulse audio in the recording tab for the Usb sound card I
>>> can also choose between Line and Microphone and when I choose Line and
>>> connect the radio, then I can see the sound bar juming around 80%-90%,
>>> when I unplug the cable, then the bar drops to 0. But still no sound.
>>> Any further ideas?
>> Yes, while you see the pulsing record level, you know you have input. 
>> So, while the radio is plugged in, chose "playback" and the playback 
>> device should have a drop-down selection. It's not always readily 
>> apparent. But, click on the device in use and you should see a 
>> selection. Pick the output you want. See if that works.
> Here are two screen shots from my current configuration. I'm not sure 
> what else I could activate in alsamixer [1]. The second section allows 
> me to choose between "Line", "Mic" and "S/PDIF" and changing it has no 
> effect to the ouput. The other sections are all on maximum. In 
> Puluseaudio [2] in the Port dropdown i can only choose "Speakers" and 
> the sound is already at 100% and not muted.
>
> [1] http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/823/screenshotfrom201303141.png/
> [2] http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/15/screenshotfrom201303141.png/

To begin with, Line and Mic are not activated.

The only active channels are Speaker and some mysterious and blank, 
black space on the right-hand side.

BC

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