On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 23:40:49 +1300 Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 01:59:40PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 11:22:48 -0400 > > From: "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.mol...@sbcglobal.net> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Sound Problem > > > > > > 64 bit Debian Wheezy/Testing. I had to reinstall the OS duer to a > > HD failure. Sound worked prior to that. > > > > computation@abnormal:~$ aplay -l > > **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** > > card 0: Solo1 [ESS ES1938 (Solo-1)], device 0: es-1938-1946 [ESS > > Solo-1] Subdevices: 2/2 > > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 > > > > > > When I run speaker-test I get the following: > > > > computation@abnormal:~$ sudo speaker-test > > [sudo] password for computation: > > > > speaker-test 1.0.25 > > > > Playback device is default > > Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels > > Using 16 octaves of pink noise > > Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz) > > Buffer size range from 32 to 16384 > > Period size range from 32 to 16384 > > Using max buffer size 16384 > > Periods = 4 > > was set period_size = 4096 > > was set buffer_size = 16384 > > 0 - Front > > Left Write error: -5,Input/output > > TL;DR -- too much information. > > Run all commands as root, this will stop permission errors obscuring > results. I don't mean using sudo, either. > > Get out of X before running "speaker-test" That xruns error comes from > X? > > Can you try from a live CD, hopefully, rule out hardware (or > software!) > > Are you sure your card does not require firmware? > > Thanks for your reply. Actually, I had run the tests that I reported as root as well as sudo and got the same response = no sound. However, I started to rerun the tests, as per your suggestion, and miraculously, sound started working! Now, from a scientific viewpoint, I believe in serendipity, but not in miracles. However, I willing to accept the fact that the speaker in now generating intelligible sound. Ping works, as does the sound in a browser. Pink noise generated in speaker-test is a roaring hiss, not the sound that I get when I access pink noise in youtube. I can accept that because I subscribe to the adage that 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it', and the lesser spoken corollary 'If it ain't broke, fix it it it will be'. There is a problem with Skype. The speaker works, but the microphone doesn't. I do have a clue. Before the HD crash and subsequent installation of the OS on the new HD the microphone setting (that worked allowing a video call) was: USB Device 0x46d:0x807, USB Audio (hw:2,0) Now, in the reinstalled Skype version, that worked before, on the new OS. there are a number of audio settings, the one most similar to the one that worked is: USB Device 0x46d:0x807, USB Audio (hw:1,0) note the only difference. The question becomes, how do I change (hw:1,0) to (hw:2.0? Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate www.FoundationForChemistry.com (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130407091912.13d85...@abnormal.att.net