On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 06:40:49 > From: Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: New `no sound' problems > Resent-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 10:41:15 +0000 (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> writes: > > > It seems to be damned recursive, the problem... After yesterday's > > full-upgrade in Sid, my old Acer One without sound once again... Everything > > seems all right: alsamixer, aumix, pulseaudio installed... Last time this > > happened, it was solved installing pulseaudio and alsaplayer-alsa... Now it > > won't... Please help. > > > Also mplayer's output seems all right: > > $ playfile timmy_thomas08-opportunity.wav > MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-7 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team > do_connect: could not connect to socket > connect: No such file or directory > Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. > > Playing timmy_thomas08-opportunity.wav. > libavformat version 58.12.100 (external) > libavformat file format detected. > [lavf] stream 0: audio (pcm_s16le), -aid 0 > Clip info: > artist: Timmy Thomas > comment: source: spotify > genre: blues > title: timmy_thomas08-opportunity > album: Why can't we live together > encoder: Lavf57.71.100 > Load subtitles in ./ > ========================================================================== > Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder > AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1411.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 176400->176400) > Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM) > ========================================================================== > AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) > Video: no video > Starting playback... > A: 0.0 (00.0) of 189.0 (03:09.0) ??,?% > > > but no sound at all. > > Rodolfo > Does speakertest produce any static? I'm thinking speakertest could do with an enhancement which would help anyone without sound tremendously. Specifically, don't ask for sound card and device on command line at all and cycle through everything it can find using aplay -l output. Have speakertest play something other than static and put a question up on the screen after each device is tried asking the user if they can hear the sample sound. Once a positive response is gotten, print out on the screen the card and device and ask the user if they'd like those stored and a positive response would then run alsactl store. Pulseaudio is another problem level and has worked so poorly in the past at times here I'm not really sure how to improve that.
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