On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:22:38 -0400 Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:19:09PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > > > There's no alsa-base in Stretch. > > > > Should there be some other way of producing sounds? > > If you're looking for alsamixer, it's in alsa-utils. ALSA should just > work out of the box for most users who skip the Desktop Environment > during the installation (and therefore do not have to circumvent > pulse). > > The only steps required for most people are to install alsa-utils, > run alsamixer, unmute the master channels, and raise the volume of the > master channels above zero. > Thank you for an extremely prompt reply, but I've been there and done that: alsa-utils is already installed at the requested version (1.1.3-1) alsamixer cannot open mixer: No such file or directory I always used to start sound troubleshooting by looking in /proc/asound to find out what the system thought my sound cards were, but that directory no longer exists. This, by the way, is a clean no-X installation of Stretch, running in hardware that previously ran Wheezy, with working sound. The sound 'card' is a cheap generic USB thing, which the kernel is seeing. Various sound modules are loaded. I presume I've got to install or configure something else, but I can't find the slightest clue on the Net. One Debian sound page refers to Sarge... -- Joe -- Joe