Switching on/off the sound from the command line

[Vikram Goyal]

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com>
Sent: Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 04:55:11PM +0100
To For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Switching on/off the sound from the command line


> On 10/23/05, Vikram Goyal <vikigoyal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe this may suffice...
> >
> > Add these 2 lines to your ~/.bashrc
> >
> > alias mute='amixer set Master mute'
> > alias unmute='amixer set Master unmute'
> 
> Thanks, Vikram. But how can one mute the computer's sound at the
> startup, automatically?
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 

You will have to add the line below to /etc/rc.local

/usr/bin/amixer set Master mute

HTH
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