You wouldn't get the feedback since it's over ssh. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > Hi Jude, > I did remove asound.state.lock, but there is no card 0 there. > When running alsamixer, there is no choices that the arrow keys move to > after pressing F6. > It does say default PCM headphone, but I hear nothing else. > Maybe I am not getting the feedback because it is over SSH. > I've tried arrowing all directions and entering, and escaping, and still no > sound. > What are some commands I can do to unmute everything and make sure the > volume is all the way up? > This Linux audio issue is disparaging in terms of Linux ever becoming a > viable OS for the Blind. > Glenn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; > <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 4:46 AM > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble > > > In /var/lock, I have two files which I would probably erase if I were > trying to get a sound card playing. Those are card0.lock and > asound.state.lock. Then if on a gui system I'd run alsamixer and hit f6 > and choose a card from the list with arrows and enter then hit escape and > then do speaker-test and see what happened. If speaker-test worked, I'd > then do alsactl store then reboot and see if the change held. > > > -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in > defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that > order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > On Mon, 27 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > > > Hi Jude, > > Thanks for the idea, here's what came back: > > lenny@lenny-desktop:~$ amixer sset pcm 100% unmute graphic 192 amixer: > > Unable to find simple control 'pcm',0 > > > > lenny@lenny-desktop:~$ aplay -l > > graphic 545 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** > > > > card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC283 Analog [ALC283 Analog] > > Subdevices: 1/1 > > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC283 Digital [ALC283 Digital] > > Subdevices: 1/1 > > graphic 545 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > > > card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] > > Subdevices: 1/1 > > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> > > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; > > <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> > > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2023 6:57 PM > > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble > > > > > > It may be running pcm in that case you might try amixer Set PCM 100% > > unmute > > also check /var/lock/alsa for any files ending in .lck and then try to > > configure and if you get sound alsactl store. > > > > > > -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in > > defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that > > order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > > > On Mon, 27 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > > > > > Hi Group, > > > I have a desktop with Ubuntu 18.something, and I don't want to upgrade > > > the > > > dist because a newer Python will break my Chirp program that I use for > > > programming my radios. > > > But it boots, and I can SSH into it, but I get no audio. > > > I test it several ways, > > > aplay file-name > > > speaker-test > > > espeak test > > > I tried: > > > amixer sset Master 100% unmute > > > and > > > amixer sset Headphone 100% unmute > > > and no errors, but still no audio. > > > It boots up to the desktop, and I tried to manually run orca, but it > > > must > > > already be running. > > > This is a 64 bit desktop with 8 GB of RAM. > > > It has two headphone jacks, and I'm testing both of them, in case the > > > audio > > > decided to switch outputs, which it has done before. > > > Does anyone have any other ideas I can try? > > > Alsamix is not too screenreader friendly via ssh. > > > I don't know if I installed something recently that did this, like maybe > > > a > > > ham radio program. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Glenn > > > > > > > > > > > >