#1 2016-02-22 22:33:31

nultweezes

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Registered: 2016-02-22

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[Solved] Yet another sound problem

Hello BL-community,

I hope you can stand another newcomer with a sound problem.
I did a fresh install of Bunsenlabs and it is a great distro, and judging from the forums it has a really lively community too.

My problem is that I can't change the volume level with my hardware keys, mute/unmute works flawless though.
The strange thing is that it does recognise my hw-keys as XF86AudioLowerVolume and  XF86AudioRaiseVolume. I have also set these as volume up/down shortcuts in volumeicon-Alsa.
I don't know if it is relevant, but it was working out of the box with vanilla Debian Jessie.

I really don't know what I have to do next, and I hope you wizards have a solution.

Last edited by nultweezes (2016-02-22 23:16:57)

damo

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Re: [Solved] Yet another sound problem

I used to have that problem, and worked around it by setting keybinds for those keys, in `rc.xml`:

        <command>amixer set Master +5%</command>
and
        <command>amixer set Master -5%</command>

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nultweezes

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Re: [Solved] Yet another sound problem

Thanks for the quick reply.

I have done it like this:

    <keybind key="XF86AudioRaiseVolume">
      <action name="Execute">
        <startupnotify>
          <enabled>true</enabled>
          <name>volumeup</name>
        </startupnotify>
        <command> <command>amixer set Master +5%</command</command>

But it doesn't work unfortunately.

damo

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Re: [Solved] Yet another sound problem

Did you Reconfigure Openbox after editing rc.xml? Do those commands work when run in a terminal?

IIRC I found something similar and ended up using "W-F6" and "W-F7" (the keys below the audio keys), but after a kernel upgrade a while ago it "just works".

YMMV I guess.

EDIT: I may have the command wrong...try

amixer set Master 5%+

Last edited by damo (2016-02-22 23:05:45)

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nultweezes

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Re: [Solved] Yet another sound problem

Thank you very much!
It was indeed 5%+ and not +5%.
It's working perfect now.

Last edited by nultweezes (2016-02-22 23:14:00)