Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: sudden sound loss

["Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
>> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> posted
>>  5bdc1c8b0804101043pdfacaeep2d6793d11ceac10@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
>>  below, on  Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:43:10 -0700:
>>
>>
>>  > I cannot even remember anymore how many times these setting have fooled
>>  > me. I use a lot of audio apps and they have a tendency to leave some of
>>  > these settings in somewhat unknown states so starting here generally
>>  > works for me.
>>
>>  Same here.  No one's an idiot for missing some of those obscure function
>>  settings with even more obscure names, once in awhile.  It happens, which
>>  is exactly why I suggested covering the simple basics like that first.
>>
> 
> I don't know if others have the same problem I do but every time I
> look at alsamixer I don't have a clue whether something is muted or
> not. I generally have to hit 'm' a few times to refresh my memory of
> which way it is set.
> 
> Something about the visual design of that app doesn't automatically
> trigger for me.
> 
> - Mark

Well for me, the trick in alsamixer is to look at the bottom of each 
'bar graph' and see if it has 'MM' in it instead of the infinity symbol. 
  I am pretty sure that's a standard set of symbols for that.  The 'MM' 
is for muted' and the infinity symbol is for unmuted.



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