How to remotely turn “up” sounds

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So I have to Skype with someone, but he is not…well let's just say not a "geek", so I have to log in via SSH to his Fedora machine, and turn on sound [because he can't hear me when using Skype, but I can hear him, so the sound is turned off/too quiet on his side]. How?

Best Answer

You can usually use alsamixer from a command line over SSH to control ALSA sound levels. For a less graphical alternative you can use amixer.

If the system uses OSS instead of ALSA, aumix should do the job.

As a last resort you could use X forwarding to send any other graphical sound control program back to your desktop for control.

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