Hello everyone..thank you all for your help and sorry for late reply. I want to inform you that the problems that I was having have been solved.
*>No Sound* I have two sound cards on my laptop: 0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDMI HDA Intel HDMI at 0xe3610000 irq 64 1 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH HDA Intel PCH at 0xe3614000 irq 62 What was happening was that the HDMI was being selected by default. I then installed pavucontrol and from there I could select the correct device and the problem was solved. [?] *>No Screen brightness control* This problem was solved by installing the backport kernel 3.16: *apt-get -t wheezy-backports install linux-image-amd64 * (Don't forget to add the backport repo to sources.list for e.g: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main non-free contrib and run *apt-get update*) *>No Wifi* This problem was solved as installing the backport wifi firmware: *apt-get -t wheezy-backports install firmware-iwlwifi* Best Regards, Dwijesh On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz > wrote: > 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 > >
