Hard Volume Control with ALSA

[Atravir]

I'm basically trying to find the easiest way to control my volume with my actual volume buttons with ALSA.

Is there an easy way to do this, or do I need to get some sort of keybinding package and figure out the terminal commands for volume up and down?


Thanks,
Atravir

[curaga]

do I need to get some sort of keybinding package and figure out the terminal commands for volume up and down?

Yes.

The other distros do this as well, they might just have it preinstalled/pre-set to common volume keys.

I use actkbd.

[Atravir]

Aha, thanks!

Let's see, I tried a config file with:

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114:key::echo amixer -c 0 set Master -1
115:key::echo amixer -c 0 set Master +1 unmuteas actkbd.conf at etc/ and then usr/local/etc, and neither seemed to do anything. Any chance you could tell me what I might be doing wrong?


Thanks

[Rich]

Hi Atravir
Did you run   actkbd ?

[tinypoodle]

Should possibly be 'sset' or 'cset' rather than 'set'; please consult "--help"/manual and test commands manually first until they do what you want them to do.

[Atravir]

Oh, the amixer commands work fine by themselves, just not with the actkbd.conf file. It's weird.

Thanks anyways though.

[Atravir]

Hi Atravir
Did you run   actkbd ?

Do I need to if I installed in onBoot?

[Rich]

Hi Atravir
If the extension does not have a script that starts it automatically, then yes. Run this command:

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ps | grep actkbd | grep -v grep If it doesn't return anything, you need to run it.