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Re: [orca-list] Strange sound problem in linux

thanks! This little script looks pretty handy :)

- Jann

2015-03-09 17:23 GMT+01:00, B. Henry <burt1iband gmail com>:

I make a very simple bash-script that unmutes basic alsa sound controls and
raises volume to pretty high levels. Depending on your system those levels
might need to be dropped some to not blow out speakers, or raised if it is a
netbook in noisy environments, but I think it will work for most folks as
is.
Many machines will have volume buttons that will work, but hardware support
does vary, and depending on distro and hardware combos, well your mileage
may vary. I have used these scripts on Ubuntu precise,/vinux4.0, and Arch
Linux with good results on a few different machines, and folks have run this

kind of thing on other distros. There could be times where some
implementations of Pulseaudio on some hardware will still have some sound
muted from
time to time.
Just deleting the pulse dir in your home directory's .config/ dir gets pulse
back to reasonable defaults in some other cases where I have lost sound. I
had to script that on a problematic machine as well so that I was not typing

rm -r ~/.config/pulse
with no verbal feedback/I am a key echo guy...lol/sloppy typest at times.
anyway, a simple script will be pasted below here to unmute alsa controls.
there are extra lines that can be uncommented and adjusted for mikes and
line input if needed as you can read.
Again, these are very high, probably bad for the system I am on actually,
better check...lol

#!/bin/bash
 # Commands for setting mixer to near max.

 amixer set Master,0 95%,95% unmute

 amixer set PCM,0 97%,97% unmute

 #amixer set Speaker,0 90%,90% unmute

 amixer set Headphone,0 100%,100% unmute

 #amixer set Internal Mic,0 50%,50% unmute

amixer set Mic,0 79%,79% unmute

#amixer set Line,0 75%,75% mute captur

 exit






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  Jann Schneider wrote:
Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 12:34:43PM +0100


Hi all,

@Christopher: i could confirm this behaviour on several platforms. But
well as you stated before: you can always use alsamixer or the gui
controls to adjust the volume or whatever method is convinient and
apropiate on the current system.
Just wanted to confirm this issues occur without any dependencies on
orca or other AT stuff. So this is not really AT specific. But well,
the question how to enable sound with the volume autoset to 0 and
maybe no braille device could get very interessting ;-)

thanks
Jann



2015-03-08 20:22 GMT+01:00, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>:

Are you sure you have to shutdown or power off? Could your volume just
be muted or at a very low volume?

I have this issue on my Asus laptop running Ubuntu 12.04. The volume is
turned down very low if I plug or unplug anything into the audio output
jack. I get around it by using the multimedia keys on my laptop to
raise
the volume.

If I recall this is a bug somewhere in the kernel or device driver, and
it affects multiple distributions. There was a bug opened to track
this,
but I don't know where that ended up any more.

On 03/08/2015 01:42 AM, Michael Weaver wrote:

I thought this may be a specific Linux distro but this seems to happen
at
least when running either Ubuntu or Sonar but there appears to be an
issue
with switching output devices when sound of any type is played which
disables both login sounds and Orca.
This is at least happening on my laptop running Ubuntu Utopic and the
latest version of Orca.
What happens is that if I install Linux with say a headset like the
kind
you may use in a Walkman or the kind with the same jack as an IPhone
headset or use the built in speakers, you seem to have to do one or
the
other when booting up a Linux system, not either or because if you use
a
headset when doing a fresh install or install and have Orca speak
through
the external speakers, if you switch at all during bootup like you wish
to
use a headset for privacy maybe yet your original installation has had
Orca come through the built in speakers, you may have a perfectly
running
Linux system only you have no sound so you have to either shutdown via
a
terminal or just power off.

Sent from my iPhone
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Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
The manual is at
http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
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