Using the Volume Control

Before you play or record any sound at all, it's important for you to become familiar with the volume controls in Fedora Core 4. To start the volume controls, either right-click the speaker icon at the far right of the menubar and choose Open Volume Control, or choose Applications, Sound & Video, Volume Control. The Volume Control application appears, as shown in Figure 15.1.

Figure 15.1. The Volume Control application's Playback tab contains sliders that adjust volume settings for your sound hardware.

You'll notice that the Volume Control application has two tabs, Playback and Capture. The Playback tab contains volume ...

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