Re: [SLUG] audio levels

From: Dylan William Hardison (dylan@hardison.net)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2008 - 17:29:31 EST


Spake Eben King on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 at 04:35PM -0500:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Jonathan Brown wrote:
>
>> aumix is a good console-based one (i believe there is a gtk+ fe as well)
>> kmix (in the kdemultimedia package) should also have mic levels
>
> I installed aumix(-gtk), but I don't see a way to get it to show me the
> audio levels, either numerically or like a VU meter (either digital or
> analog-style). It appears to be just another mixer.

I'm fairly certain aumix is for oss, not alsa.
Try alsamixer (from alsa-utils (or alsa-util?) in most debian and
debian-derived distros.

It should look something like this:

http://lofn.sinedev.org/~dylan/alsamixer.png

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