[kde-linux] KMix problems - settings won't stay set
James Richard Tyrer
tyrerj at acm.org
Wed Mar 25 20:36:51 UTC 2009
Andy Crouch wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> I am using KMix 2.6.1, KDE 3.5.10.
>>
>> I can't persuade the settings to endure. I set them to what I
>> want, go to another of the tabs, go back, and the things I have
>> just set have reverted to what they were. I have repeatedly set
>> "capture", but if I go anywhere else it is back to zero.
>>
>> I have even resorted to Alsamixer and Alsamixergui, but they are
>> worse because I have no idea how to move along the settings in the
>> first or operate the second, and no amount of Googling helps.
>
> I'm writing this from memory but I thought that with alsamixer you
> could move between the various channels using the left and right
> arrow keys and move the volume of the selected channel up and down
> with the up and down arrow keys.
>
> Once you have made your modifications then you need to exit alsamixer
> (esc key) and run alsactl store from the shell.
>
>> I have been trying to solve this for 2 days! I need to get it
>> working so that the mic on my headset works so that I can make
>> calls on SipGate. I am clearly doing something wrong - but what??
>>
I have a man page: alsamixer. So there are instructions.
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JRT
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