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Can't unmute with alsamixer

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I am using Ubuntu 12.04 in combination with Awesome window manager. Most of the stuff ubuntu provides I don't use.

I adjust my audio volume through scripts with amixer or manually with alsamixer. However after a reboot, my audio is muted and the only way to unmute it is through the gnome-control-center sound GUI.

I prefer terminal so I would like to know how I can unmute my audio without having to open up a GUI. Also, should I maybe remove pulseaudio, since I always use alsamixer anyways?

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answered 2 Years ago epypian · Accepted Answer

In case we want to keep pulseaudio we may also unmute a sink from the command line.

By using the Pulseaudio Command Line Interface we will get the index of available sinks

pacmd list-sinks

We then can unmute the sink with

pacmd set-sink-mute <index> 0