[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#908938: Bug#908938: alsa-utils: amixer does not unmute pulseaudio

[Łukasz Stelmach]

Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de> writes:
> * Łukasz Stelmach <steelman at post.pl> [2018-09-16 11:23 +0200]:
>
>> I've got PulseAudio running, so amixer (and alsamixer) controls the
>> default PA output. I use the following command to control muting of
>> audio.
>> 
>>     amixer -q -c 0 sset Master toggle
>> 
>> It mutes the audio but can't unmute. Neither can
>> 
>>     amixer -q -c 0 sset Master unmute
>
> Master toggle mutes the Speaker here. so
>
> amixer -q -c 0 sset Speaker unmute
>
> does the job on my system. This is a bit confusing users.www

On my system Master is the only playback control visible in alsamixer
(which is toggled properly with the `m' key). So

    amixer -q -c 0 sset Speaker unmute

simply refuses to do anything

    amixer: Unable to find simple control 'Speaker',0

There seem to be some subtle difference between alsamixer and amixer
which makes makes the former work both ways.

> Should we forward this bug to alsa-devel?

I believe so. Previously (w/o PA) it worked fine so I have the toggle
amixer command bound to the mute key.

Please feel free to ask for any further info about my system.

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