How do I un-mute the sound?

[noorali]

I am using Mint Debian, XFCE, on a Compaq nc6400 I hit the mute button, and now don't know how to un-mute it. I have tried restarting and hitting the mute button and turning the volume up and down and nothing seems to work.

Can any one help me with me stupid newb question?

[sagirfahmid3]

Terminal > alsamixer
Use the up, down, left, right keys to select the master option, then increase the volume.

FYI, for future reference:

"amixer set Master 5%-" to decrease volume by 5%
"amixer set Master 5%+" to increase volume by 5%
"amixer sset Master toggle" to mute/unmute

Now, to apply all that, just assign or edit your keyboard shortcuts.

[noorali]

Ok thanks that did the trick

[psycam]

You can also run the fix given here for XFCE, and not have to mess with binding.

[jjaythomas]

Not sure about the media-keys/hardware config
But
On the panel you have a mixer control (default in Mint's I believe). You can click on and bring up a 'mini-mixer'.
Make sure sound card selected (alsa-playback, pulseadio-playback ect). Selectet control to show (will save & show from now on). The master control usually does the trick. The icon below (looks like speaker) toggles mute on and off (normally show red x to show state in also).

J.Jay

[jpala16]

Awesome!
I have been looking for so long the solution to this and didn't find it!

This did the trick for me on LMDE with MATE:

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amixer sset Master toggle

I binded that command to my multimedia mute/unmute key on the keyboard and now it works like it had to out of the box. Still I have to press this key to unmute either I decrease volume one level at a time or I mute directly. But it's no problem. Before I had to end session or restart to make it work

Thanks sagirfahmid3 for the solution.