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Linux Mint Sound System video explains in great detail the kernal sound card driver, sound cards installed, alsamixer saving parameters, and how to install and use the PulseAudio that is provided with many distros. The following commands are available for copy and paste:
Terminal Commands:
Save alsamixer parameters
$ man alsactl User manual, press “q” to exit
$ alsactl info get card number, will list all sound cards (a USB headset is also a sound card)
$ alsactl store # motherboard sound cards are usually (0). Without specifying a card number all sound card devices will store their current configurations and you may not want that
These sound card parameters are stored at /var/lib/alsa/asound.state on Linux Mint.
$ cd /var/lib/alsa/
$ ls
asound.state
PulseAudio
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Terminal Command:
$ pulseaudio -k if your having trouble use this kill command
$ pulseaudio –start after kill, now restart
Install PulseAudio Volume Control via Terminal
$ sudo apt-get install pavucontrol
Run Volume Control in terminal
$ pavucontrol
Install PulseAudio Volume Control using Software Manager
LM/Admministration/Software Manager search for pavucontrol
Run volume control in GUI
LM/Sound and Video/PulseAudio Volume Control
Upgrade PulseAudio
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade pulseaudio