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PostPosted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 9:54 am    Post subject: [SOLVED] Restore sound levels - keybord multimedia mute Reply with quote

Hi,

I've a M$ Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 and decided to try out the multimedia keys (never used them before).

To my delight the volume Up and Down buttons worked, so I thought I'd try the Mute button, it worked too, but only in one direction, its muted my sound and I now can't work out how to restore it.

I've tried Alsamixer (obviously!) and noticed that "Auto-Mode Mute" was enabled so I've disabled that but no joy.

Aside from that I'm stumped, the Volume Up/Down keys still modify the Master volume but there is no sound. I've tried rebooting and restarting alsa (/etc/init.d/alsasound restart) all to no avail.

Suggestions much appreciated, ta,

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 11:55 am    Post subject: Re: Restore sound levels - keybord multimedia mute Reply with quote

slack---line wrote:
"Auto-Mode Mute"

That option is to automatically mute the speakers, when headphones are plugged in.

In alsamixer, press M to toggle mute on the controls that have "MM" (muted) or "OO" (open, I assume) at their bottom.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 3:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Restore sound levels - keybord multimedia mute Reply with quote

PaulBredbury wrote:
slack---line wrote:
"Auto-Mode Mute"

That option is to automatically mute the speakers, when headphones are plugged in.

In alsamixer, press M to toggle mute on the controls that have "MM" (muted) or "OO" (open, I assume) at their bottom.


Here in lies the problem!

There aren't any controls that are "MM" to toggle back to unmuted/open, hence the question (sorry for not being explicit on this in the first instance).

EDIT : And thats running alsamixer as user and as root.

I'm flummoxed!
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Solved this, I was looking at the main sound card, the key had muted the "Default" sound device, unmuting that sorted it. :oops:

Time to rebind that key correctly!
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