Re: ALSA Volume Setting function

Hi Warren,

I plan to try the script below, where should I place this I'm using ltsp-5
ubuntu?


Thanks,
AC

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Warren Togami <[email protected]> wrote:

> Problem:
> ALSA devices are set to some preset value like 74% on Fedora or 80%
> (some other distro).  Pulseaudio exposes no way to adjust these values,
> so it is impossible to bring volume up to audible on some machines
> through the mixer applet in a user session alone.
>
> Gadi has the code below based upon lts.conf options from LTSP-4.2 that
> were removed for some reason for LTSP5.  I plan on improving upon this
> code further by using the same basic idea, except setting each volume
> value to 100% for Master* and 95% for the others by default if they are
> not specified from lts.conf.
>
> I plan on putting this in into ltsp-init-common as a function that can
> be called from either Debian or Fedora-style init scripts (since they
> are separate.)
>
> Any objections?
>
> # Set up sound
> ### for ALSA, we use amixer
> if [ -n "$VOLUME" ]; then
>   amixer sset Master,0 ${VOLUME}% unmute 2>/dev/null
>   amixer sset 'Master Digital',0 ${VOLUME}% unmute 2>/dev/null
> fi
> [ -n "$HEADPHONE_VOLUME" ] && \
>   amixer sset Headphone,0 ${HEADPHONE_VOLUME:-$VOLUME}% unmute 2>/dev/null
> [ -n "$PCM_VOLUME" ] && \
>   amixer sset PCM,0 ${PCM_VOLUME}% unmute 2>/dev/null
> [ -n "$MIC_VOLUME" ] && \
>   amixer sset Mic,0 ${MIC_VOLUME}% unmute cap 2>/dev/null
> [ -n "$CD_VOLUME" ] && \
>   amixer sset CD,0 ${CD_VOLUME}% unmute cap 2>/dev/null
> [ -n "$FRONT_VOLUME" ] && \
>   amixer sset Front,0 ${FRONT_VOLUME}% unmute cap 2>/dev/null
>
> Warren Togami
> [email protected]
>
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