Charlie wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:56:31 -1000 Joel Roth sent: > > > For now, you do have have a working audio system sitting > > atop your Intel soundcard(s). > > Yes thank you. > > I have purged pulseaudio again. Never having used it found Alsa was > always fine till recently when alsa didn't do it for me when using VLC. > But then pulseaudio didn't either. > > However alsaplayer in the GUI only plays half the song and chokes. > > Aplay plays the songs fine in full, no glitch when invoked on the > command line. > > VLC doesn't produce any sound. But then I can live without it. > Especially since I have discovered how to add several songs to aplay on > the commandline, takes a bit more typing the way I do it, but then > that's also fine.
try vlc with the --alsa-audio-device default --alsa-audio-device hw:0,0 It looks like can specify the channel count (although using '6' to get stereo seems weird.) >From vlc --longhelp: --alsa-audio-channels {1 (Mono), 6 (Stereo), 102 (Surround 4.0), 4198 (Surround 4.1), 103 (Surround 5.0), 4199 (Surround 5.1), 4967 (Surround 7.1)} cheers, > It's never so bad if you know how to do something, it's just a pain > when you don't and you need to scrounge through all manner of websites > to discover how it might work, often wasted because you've looked in > the wrong place and it doesn't. Man pages and mailing lists are helpful. There is no way to configure your system without some knowledge, or willingness to get experience. > I recall reading a Linux user/developer once writing that he was almost > sick of Linux because whenever you tried to do something you had to > learn how to do it. That in Windows it just worked. I did a Windows 7 system restore for a friend's notebook that took forever. Many times more difficult than what I can do with unix tools like rsync. > It was interesting, and I know that when I want to do something and > have to troll the net to find a way to do it because it needed a tweak, > it could be frustrating. But I always blamed myself because I made the > choice to use Debian "testing" instead of stable where I assume > everything just works? No, you will always have issues configuring your system to suit your hardware, networking environment and personal needs. You cannot escape some overhead in administering a system. cheers, joel > Anyway thank you, > Charlie > > -- > Registered Linux User:- 329524 > *********************************************** > > If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I > brag for humanity rather than for myself. ....Henry David > Thoreau > > *********************************************** > > Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150117171626.75cf67bd@taogypsy > -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150117065129.GB26400@sprite