Re: making sound work in Jessie - how?
On 12/13/2014 09:40 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20141213_1926-0500, Ric Moore wrote: On 12/13/2014 06:43 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: What packages should I make sure are properly installed? pavucontrol is usually missed. You need it to admin pulse. :) Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome. R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Thanks for the email. But perhaps you could give me more. I think my netinstall missed a whole bunch of stuff, like the people configuring the install task package forgot ot include a big bunch of stuff. When you installed the sound on you computer what did you install manually, not just the one that you are always kicking yourself for forgetting, the nine yards. You should have synaptic installed to help you select packages first. I couldn't live without it! Then make sure you have alsa installed completely. next search on pulse and install pavucontrol which is not installed by default. I've bitched about that, as you cannot admin pulse without it. So, for sound, alsa is what everything depends on. So, run alsamixer from a terminal command line. Make sure your audio devices are not muted and sound levels a point or two from being 100% high. If alsa doesn't work, pulse has no chance since it sits on top of alsa. Then run pavucontrol and you'll get a graphical admin front-end for pulse. . -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome. R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/548f2156.4050...@gmail.com
making sound work in Jessie - how?
I've been running Jessie on my deaktop from some time before the end of September. The last time a checked, which was quite a while ago, sound was working. But it might have been before I migrated from Wheezy to Jessie. Now realize I don't know what to do to get sound working in Jessie. I got Jessie by doing a netinst. The first thing I tried to do when I noticed sound not working was to install flashplayer-nonfree and run it. This had worked in Wheezy but either I missed an important step or that's not the way to do in under systemd. I am *not* knocking systemd. But flashplayer-nonfree was/is something kluge and I would be glad to let it rest in peace. What packages should I make sure are properly installed? Where can I find a check list of what needs to be done. While I'm typing this I realize I might need to become a member of a special access group, but what is the name of the group? These are things about which I need up-to-date info, and there is mostly stale info on google (By stale, I mean from the dark ages before the coming of Pulse.) But maybe my problem has nothing to do with Pulse or systemd. Please suggest test to make and information to give. The computer runs the latest i686 32bit kernel (latest for Jessie) It is HP desktop that's a few years old. I'll be re-installing flashplayer again while waiting for suggestions... TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141213234102.ga7...@big.lan.gnu
Re: making sound work in Jessie - how?
On 20141213_1643-0700, Paul E Condon wrote: I've been running Jessie on my deaktop from some time before the end of September. The last time a checked, which was quite a while ago, sound was working. But it might have been before I migrated from Wheezy to Jessie. Now realize I don't know what to do to get sound working in Jessie. I got Jessie by doing a netinst. The first thing I tried to do when I noticed sound not working was to install flashplayer-nonfree and run it. This had worked in Wheezy but either I missed an important step or that's not the way to do in under systemd. I am *not* knocking systemd. But flashplayer-nonfree was/is something kluge and I would be glad to let it rest in peace. What packages should I make sure are properly installed? Where can I find a check list of what needs to be done. While I'm typing this I realize I might need to become a member of a special access group, but what is the name of the group? These are things about which I need up-to-date info, and there is mostly stale info on google (By stale, I mean from the dark ages before the coming of Pulse.) But maybe my problem has nothing to do with Pulse or systemd. Please suggest test to make and information to give. The computer runs the latest i686 32bit kernel (latest for Jessie) It is HP desktop that's a few years old. I'll be re-installing flashplayer again while waiting for suggestions... Yes, I know its flashplugin . My bad. I was reminded of that when I couldn't get aptitude to find under the wrong name. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141213235358.ga7...@big.lan.gnu
Re: making sound work in Jessie - how?
On 12/13/2014 3:43 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: What packages should I make sure are properly installed? Where can I find a check list of what needs to be done. While I'm typing this I realize I might need to become a member of a special access group, but what is the name of the group? These are things about which I need up-to-date info, and there is mostly stale info on google (By stale, I mean from the dark ages before the coming of Pulse.) But maybe my problem has nothing to do with Pulse or systemd. Please suggest test to make and information to give. Gnome has used pulseaudio for a while now, KDE started using it too, don't know about the other desktops. In a terminal window issue the command /dpkg -s pulseaudio/ If that produces a result that makes it look like pulseaudio is installed then look for /~/.pulse// Edit (creating it if you have to) a file named /client.conf// / add this line of text to client.conf /autospawn = no/ Then in a terminal window issue the command /pactl exit/ If that gives you an error try /pulseaudio --kill/ Try something that plays audio. If audio works For me personally the follow up to that on my system was, in a terminal window issue the commands /cp /etc/xdg/autostart/pulse*.desktop ~/.config/autostart// //cd ~/.co//nfig/autostart// //ls pulse*/ for each pulseaudio*.desktop file that exists, open it in a text editor (gedit, kate, nano, etc...) find the 'Exec=' line and comment it out with a '#' symbol at the beginning of the line /#Exec=start-pulseaudio-x11// / Later, Seeker
