Kmix Does Nothing?

[Dave]

On Thursday 20 January 2005 11:01 am, Robin Laing wrote:
> Dave wrote:
> > (Top posting corrected)
> >
> > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 08:41 pm, Steven J. Brown wrote:
> >>Dave wrote:
> >>>OK, so I finally got sound working ... how, I don't know, but xmms is
> >>>playing now. But Kmix doesn't do anything! Can't change volume, can't
> >>>mute ... WTFO?
> >>
> >>Try alsamixer
> >
> > Alsamixer, being a text-interface mixer, which doesn't integrate into the
> > panel like Kmix does? Oh, and mute doesn't work in alsamixer either ...
>
> Hu?
>
> My Alsamixer is graphical with slides and click buttons for mute etc.

 Interesting. Mine isn't. Appended is what it looks like (I shrunk my terminal 
window down so I could copy without linewrap--don't know if the 'line' 
characters will come through). And I would PREFER a tool that's integrated 
with my desktop, that nicely tucks away into the taskbar, that I can call up 
to change the volume with a single click, instead of a text-mode program I 
have to open a terminal window and use the keyboard to control. Persnickety 
of me, I know.

  Incidentally, playing around with it and Kmix I discovered that the two 
controls labelled Master do nothing, but the one labeled Headphone controls 
the volume. And yes, I checked the rear of the computer--it's not plugged 
into the headphone jack (I don't have one). So ... how do I (a) either 
convince ALSA/kmix that the master control should (duh) control the volume, 
or (b) tell Kmix to display the headphone slider when I click on the taskbar 
icon, instead of the master slider?

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