sound volume control

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: sound volume control
started by: mgmont

Posted by mgmont on July 11 2005,18:01

I have created a script that uses festival to say a greeting imediately after boot up. However the default sound level is too low and the greeting is hard to hear. Once the computer is booted up I can manualy adjust the sound with the volume control on the DSL desktop to a usable level but that does not help for the bootup message.

Is there a way to change the default level to a higher setting with a parameter within some file or some other method?

Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

Posted by cbagger01 on July 12 2005,03:21

Yes.

You can install the aumix command line mixer program.

Then you can add an aumix command to your startup script that will increase the volume for you.

A good place to store this is in your /opt/bootlocal.sh startup script.

Posted by mgmont on July 13 2005,02:02

Thanks for the information, cbagger01. I guess aumix can be found somewhere in Debian sites? I did not see it in any of the dsl apps. I will search some more for it and try it out when I find it.

Thanks

Posted by cbagger01 on July 13 2005,04:02

You can choose "Enable APT" from the menu or "Synaptic" if you prefer the graphical tool.

You should then be able to do something like:

sudo apt-get install aumix

from an xterminal window.

Posted by mgmont on July 13 2005,16:08

Cbagger01, you have made my day! It works great. You also showed me how to use some functions within DSL that I was vaguely aware of but had never tried. This is great!

Thank you very much.