[This mail was also posted to linux.debian.user.] Thx for responding, Charlie.
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:30:03 +0100, Charlie wrote: > 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. I never have before. It's always 'just worked'. Haven't had a new laptop for some time, though. > > 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. Done & done ... only 'default' and 'HDA Intel PCH' available (and "enter device name") > > 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. I've often noticed recommendations to uninstall pulseaudio but never seen a case where it has been reported to work :) apt-get purge pulseaudio wants to take gnome & lots of other stuff with it :(( > > 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. And so it goes .. > > 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 What is this? 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. No, in fact, but I'm nonetheless grateful you made the effort. Thx again. D2 > > Charlie
