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notice this problem is not just me. when i try to use the sound slider it does nothing. using the asla sound wizard doesnt help.. note i can adjust the sound volume when in any app like pithos or spotify from the app itself. open to any fix even if it calls for different sound app/tks

rburkartjo,

How about the, ah, the up and down arrow keys for "Master" within alsamixer (run from terminal)?

Try each of these and comment on whether there was in fact a change in volume:

amixer sset 'Master' 50%

amixer sset 'Master' 80%

I'd guess philb has a helpful comment or two here...

thru no luck but tks

root# amixer sset 'Master' 50%
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 87
Mono: Playback 44 [51%] [-32.25dB] [on]
root# amixer sset 'Master' 80%
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 87
Mono: Playback 70 [80%] [-12.75dB] [on]
root#

Guessing you have two cards open the Sound Wizard and confirm.

@rburkartjo :-

When you say it doesn't do anything.....can you clarify?

I suspect the mixer needs some adjustments. Right-click on the tray icon->Full window. I bet the 'PCM' slider is right down the bottom of its scale; this needs to be set to fully on. If your audio is Intel-based, you may also have a slider for 'Front'.....this, too, needs to be fully up. Now try things. Does that help?

(You'll find you also need to click on the tray icon to get rid of the scale, as well as clicking to bring it up. Just a peculiarity of the way pizzasgood coded the thing when he wrote it, all those years ago....)

Mike.

mike when i open the slider cant read anything background is white,, been messing with it all weekend . tried to delete .config that didnt work.is there a command or a w could delete retrovol and then reinstall, that might work

Have you done what ThruHammer asked? See what the Multiple Sound Card Wizard shows you?

Gotta head down town for a while. Shall be gone for a couple of hours.

Mike.

Yeah, c'mon Lad, I haven't planned on beating it out of you.

yup and no luck

thru

So you selected Card 1 and it doesn't take, hmm? Have you tried both wizards?

If your HDMI device was recently added, is this when your issue arose?

Now I'm not quite sure how relevant this command may be, but if it is it'll show us whether your card has a driver loaded.

lspci -nnk |grep -iA3 audio

thru here is output

root#
root# lspci -nnk |grep -iA3 audio
00:01.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Kabini HDMI/DP Audio [1002:9840]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Kabini HDMI/DP Audio [103c:80b2]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 16h (Models 30h-3fh) Host Bridge [1022:156b]
--
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller [1022:780d] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company FCH Azalia Controller [103c:80b2]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
root#

You missed a few questions, Mate. Please...

You don't have Pulse Audio installed for anything, right?

Now, your HDMI card, 0... is there another port you could plug it into?

If there is and you swap it out, reboot before again working out the volume controls.

check, if you have that file:
/root/.retrovolrc
if so, open it with texteditor/geany, and post here the content.

At all, there are also the colours defined (you wrote, you can't see text)

for experiments, I show here my file:

# Config file for retrovol
# This file should reside in the user's home directory and be named .retrovolrc


# Which soundcard to use
#card=hw:0

# Set this to 0-2 to define a linear, logarithmic, or exponential volume scale, respectively
#scaling=0

# Set this to 1 to make the volume automatically mute when set to 0%, or 0 to keep it unmuted at 0%
#auto_mute=1

# Set this to 1 to make the sliders vertical, or 0 for horizontal (only applies to the main window)
#vertical=0

# Window position
#window_x=-1
window_x=124
#window_y=-1
window_y=156

# Window dimensions
#window_width=270
window_width=450
#window_height=256
window_height=448

# Slider dimensions
#slider_width=102
#slider_height=20
#slider_margin=2
#seg_thickness=2
#seg_spacing=1

# Slider colorscheme
#background_color=#000000
background_color=#550000
#border_color=#000000
border_color=#550000
#unlit_color=#CCCCCC
unlit_color=#550000
#lit_color=#00B2FF
lit_color=#018C48

# Enable the tray_icon
#enable_tray_icon=1
icon_color=#018C48

# Enable the tray_icon
#enable_tray_icon=1

# Enable the tray_menu
#enable_tray_menu=1

# Background color of tray_icon (default is default GTK background color).  Note:  the commandline -bg option overrides this
#tray_icon_background_color=#CCCCCC

# Set this to 1 to make the slider on the tray_icon vertical, or 0 for horizontal
#tray_slider_vertical=1

# Tray slider dimensions
#tray_slider_width=20
#tray_slider_height=102
#tray_slider_offset=-1

# Which slider to link with the tray_icon, identified by numid
#tray_control=37
tray_control=15



# The numids of the sliders to display, in order.  It is okay to have comments
# after the numbers as long as the numbers are the first non-whitespace
# characters.  To get a list of the slider numids, run this command:
#    amixer controls
# NOTE:  This section must go at the end of the file!

#EXAMPLE:

#sliders:
#	37	#Master Playback Volume
#	15	#Front Playback Volume
#	3	#Surround Playback Volume

sliders:

(Lines beginning with # are comments, doesn't do anything, they are only für hints/informations)

hope it helps, Eastler

Always forgetting about thos rc's.

Makes sense though. Yours rburkartjo should probably read...

# Which soundcard to use
#card=hw:0
#card=hw:1
card=hw:1

Maybe it's time to use the magic command:

alsa reload

Or even:

alsa force-reload

If it does not help, restart the computer. Then select desired sound card in ALSA sound Wizard.

If the previous tips don't help, run Menu>>System>>PupSysInfo. In it, click Devices>>Audio. Maybe there are clues.

grey tks see below but dont know how to proceed

Looking at the images, you posted.
The analog card, is the correct one to have selected, in sound card wizard.

However, that may not be the card, Retrovol is selected to control.
If you right click on the speaker icon, in the tray.
Select settings, from right click menu.
In hardware tab.
Sound card selection needs to be hw:1
Then go back to right click menu.
Select mixer
Check to make sure speaker and or headset sliders are turned up.
Any others that may have an affect.

If you are not able to see letters in the right click menu.
You have made some setting changes to the colors used for background and color of fonts.
The background is probably white and the fonts are also white.
Use menu->JWMDest Manager to change this.

thru,grey,easter, bigpup tks
reset rc file by copyig into folder
used reset command
still when click on tray icon cant adjust sound
adjusting sound from apps works fine

Begin here and read, not skim, the rest that follow. It may just work!

DITTO: This one and the one that follows as well.

If the tray icon doesn't adjust the volume, it may be set to the wrong item. Check that it is set to Master.

^^^ +1.

Now how did I manage to forget THAT..? (*D'oh!!*)

May well be the culprit. I always have to reset this when switching from the Logitech headset back to the onboard audio.

Good catch, Terry.

Mike.

mike tks read thru your links just deleted the asound .conf then ran alsa reload and then rebooted computer

and again tks for everyone's input