On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 05:55:14PM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > With so much still to learn, I didn't think I had ALSA installed. > Turned out what he did know'd was..... I did so, too, have ALSA > installed on my system else pavucontrol would (apparently) not have > worked.
No, pavucontrol is only used to control pulseaudio. See alsamixer. > Found out fairly easily back then that ALSA was, yes, in my system, > but I sure struggled to duplicate the same effort today. It's there. > Best as I can tell, ALSA's functionality was initially installed at > least in part as packages libasound2-data and libasound2. Xfce4 gets > the k/t for that default action occurring as part of its own install > (this past week again). See the packages alsa-base and alsa-utils > That's why it was a no-brainer it would be *safe* to pose pavucontrol > as a potential alternative *_CHOICE_* for any conversation that > includes the words "- No Sound". :) *If* they have pulseaudio installed. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- 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/20150325114432.GB5541@tal