How to unmute multiple controls at once

[Willem van der Walt]

Not quite solving the problem, but:
amixer|fgrep -i simp
should give you the names of all controls and adding another |fgrep -i 
speak
might limmit it further.
Regards, Willem


On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Keith Hinton wrote:

> Hi to all on the Speakup mailing list,
> This is a very general question. How do you unmute all the audio
> controls? One problem that I will have with my laptop is this.
> The sound card has a PC Speaker control that generates a PC speaker
> tone through it. I use this generally for knowing if I'm at the left
> hand margin of the BASH shell. While other people find it annoying, I
> find it useful for this personally. Only previous versions of Udev
> detect it, beginning with Linux kernel 2.6.26. The GRML-kernel, used
> in GRML-2008.11, uses 2.6.26. In that case, my laptop sound card works
> great. However, I still don't know how to  successfully unmute all the
> necessary controls. The  PCM and master volumes should work, however I
> will require my PC speaker control to work. I don't know what
> Alsa-mixer calls that type Of control, as many laptops do not have an
> onboard PC speaker. Therefore, I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Is
> there a rappid command I could send to alsamixer? I.e. Alsamixer
> Control1; control2; control3; control4; contro.l5; control 6; control
> seven; control 8; control 9; control 10; unmute /dev/audio? Or
> something.
> Well, on second thought, maybe not all the audio controls, but I don't
> want to go changing volume levels, I just want them unmuted. What
> should I do? If I can quickly do this on the LiveCD before really
> using it, I don't care about the glaring defect. The card in my
> laptop, according to Windows, is an Realtek HD Audio card. Would the
> PCM and master volumes be enough to provide audio output? I guess that
> testing is the only way to determan this, but I'd like a more
> practical for sure to work solution. I won't go hunting around the
> Internet to get this working, I really don't have any time to do this.
> Thanks again. Regards, --Keith
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