On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:38:51 +0000 David Parfitt sent:
> Hi all:
> I've newly bought a laptop (details at end) & installed Jessie 8.2.
> All's well except that I have no sound. I've done quite a lot of
> online research but got nowhere. I'm looking for ANY other practical
> ideas, please.
Sound is a never ending problem with Debian. It's just the way it is,
so I have found it.
Try alsamixer and press F6 and if you have the option of a couple of
sound cards try each one. But it may not stick if you reboot.
Try pulseaudio, you don't always need to use pavucontrol, that works
sometimes but after a reboot it also may fail. Then uninstall it and
try again without and that may work.
Sometimes your headphone jack works and sometimes it doesn't so you
play around with alsamixer and pulseaudio and you can possibly get it
working. I haven't been able to recently.
It's really, try everything till you hit on the combination that works
and depending what audio package you use, you may also have to select
the audio function to get the sound to work. VLC has heaps and you just
work through them till one works. One will probably work?
Or you may plug in a USB stick and get a dialogue up that asks you what
you want to do with the sound configuration, various options. All a bit
hit and miss.
I've never had sound working constantly no matter what brand laptop or
sound card is in the machine. If I want to listen to music or speech on
a video, always have to fiddle to get it working. Done it for so many
years now it has become automagic.
Probably not much help.
Charlie
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