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Author: Kevin Brown
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Subject: sound volume
Ted Gould wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 16:09, Mike Starke wrote:
>
>>I've never been much of a gui guy, but I just fired up the gnome-panel
>>and see a volume control to the far right. If one had to adjust the
>>volume (intensity or mute) via the command line, how would that be done?
>>
>>Seems to me gui apps only manipulate values contained within asci files
>>anyway.............
>
>
> I don't know of any utility that will let you do that on the command
> line - but to do it all you'd need is something to write to /dev/mixer.
> It isn't an ASCII file though...


My laptop has the volume control on the keyboard and works whether I'm in
Windows or Linux. Even works while the system is booting (bios function most
likely).