Pulse Audio Sound Levels

[Basil Chupin]

On 15/03/13 08:41, Lanoxx wrote:
>
> On 14/03/13 15:25, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 15/03/13 00:14, Lanoxx wrote:
>>>
>>> On 14/03/13 01:24, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>> On 03/13/2013 07:35 PM, Lanoxx wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 13/03/13 21:23, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> What does alsamixer show you?? Maybe the aux input is muted there?
>>>>>> Happens. Ric
>>>>>>
>>>>> Here is what I do:
>>>>> alsamixer -> F6 -> "USB Multimedia Audio Device" -> F4 (Capture): 
>>>>> I can
>>>>> see three categories: "Line", "Mic" and "S/PDIF in" the first two 
>>>>> (line
>>>>> and mic are set to 94), the "S/PDIF" section does not have a 
>>>>> volume bar
>>>>> to change. Additinally the all sections show "L Capture R" in red 
>>>>> letters.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I open pulse audio in the recording tab for the Usb sound card I
>>>>> can also choose between Line and Microphone and when I choose Line 
>>>>> and
>>>>> connect the radio, then I can see the sound bar juming around 
>>>>> 80%-90%,
>>>>> when I unplug the cable, then the bar drops to 0. But still no sound.
>>>>> Any further ideas?
>>>> Yes, while you see the pulsing record level, you know you have 
>>>> input. So, while the radio is plugged in, chose "playback" and the 
>>>> playback device should have a drop-down selection. It's not always 
>>>> readily apparent. But, click on the device in use and you should 
>>>> see a selection. Pick the output you want. See if that works.
>>> Here are two screen shots from my current configuration. I'm not 
>>> sure what else I could activate in alsamixer [1]. The second section 
>>> allows me to choose between "Line", "Mic" and "S/PDIF" and changing 
>>> it has no effect to the ouput. The other sections are all on 
>>> maximum. In Puluseaudio [2] in the Port dropdown i can only choose 
>>> "Speakers" and the sound is already at 100% and not muted.
>>>
>>> [1] 
>>> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/823/screenshotfrom201303141.png/
>>> [2] 
>>> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/15/screenshotfrom201303141.png/
>>
>> To begin with, Line and Mic are not activated.
>>
>> The only active channels are Speaker and some mysterious and blank, 
>> black space on the right-hand side.
> Many thanks for the hint. I completely overlooked that fact that the 
> little MM stands for mute, once I activated that by pressing the m-key 
> the sound started to work. Now I still have one problem:
> When I suspend the computer then the sound stops, which still is kind 
> of annoying, because it means that either the computer needs to be 
> swiched on, or i need to unplug the USB cable just to listen to the 
> radio. Does pulseaudio or alsa set the sound to back to mute before 
> suspending, or is this an issue of the USB sound card?

I think that you will find the answer for yourself if you read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspend_to_disk

BC

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