Volume control

[Matt Patterson]

Right click on the little speaker icon, select the preferences item. 
There should now be a list of the items available on your sound system. 
It is probably pointing towards master volume, select the pcm volume and 
try your buttons again.

Matt



Niran Babalola wrote:

>I'm using Ubuntu on a Dell 700m, which doesn't have a hardware volume
>control knob. It saddens me. It has function keys on the keyboard to
>control the volume with, and I used the Keyboard Shortcuts preferences
>dialog to set them up. The problem is, the master volume control
>doesn't do anything for some reason. Only changing the PCM volume
>level has the desired effect. Is there any way to get the keyboard
>shortcuts to change the PCM volume level, or more desirably, get the
>master volume control to actually do something?
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>- Niran
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