Re: sound problems after upgrade

2013-12-13 Thread Christopher Judd
On Thursday, December 12, 2013 11:30:44 PM Kailash Kalyani wrote: > On Thursday 12 December 2013 09:12 PM, Christopher Judd wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a testing box, kernel 3.2.0-3-amd64, using KDE. After an upgrade > > earlier this week, I am having problems with sound. The system is an MSI >

Re: sound problems after upgrade

2013-12-12 Thread Kailash Kalyani
On Thursday 12 December 2013 09:12 PM, Christopher Judd wrote: Hi, I have a testing box, kernel 3.2.0-3-amd64, using KDE. After an upgrade earlier this week, I am having problems with sound. The system is an MSI 760GM-P23 motherboard with onboard RealTek ALC887, and sound has always worked fine

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-24 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/23/2013 10:59 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/22/2013 10:35 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 409

SOLVED was Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade THANK YOU

2013-09-24 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 24 September 2013 01:24:09 Gregory Nowak wrote: > firmware-linux-nonfree installed, and that doesn't seem to have > helped. So, I would try a newer kernel from debian backports as > someone else in that thread suggests. HTH. I already had the firmwqare. So backport kernel installed, ma

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-24 Thread Curt
On 2013-09-23, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > > I'm ashamed to say that I hadn't, but I had in fact found most of it > one way or another anyway. There was one suggestion that seemed just > possibly relevant, and hey! I'm getting desperate. I tried it, but > s

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:50:04PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > But I finally googled how, and looked at my boot log > (/var/log/messages). I got the following that seems relevant, > although slighly old: Hmmm, this makes me wonder if maybe your card requires firmware with the new 3.x kernel unde

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 23 September 2013 21:27:46 Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:59:56AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > > I then had to manually start pulseaudio with "service pulseaudio > > start." This worked but still no sound. with tools > preferences > > > audio pointed it to pulseaudio for

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-23 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:59:56AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > I then had to manually start pulseaudio with "service pulseaudio > start." This worked but still no sound. with tools > preferences > audio > pointed it to pulseaudio for its > output device. I started an arbitrary icecast and under Au

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-23 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/22/2013 10:35 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa root@mysit

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade (and squeeze, previously)

2013-09-22 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:29:13AM -0500, Damon Getsman wrote: > Haven't checked to see what the BIOS menu says yet, > but I will as soon as I can take the machine down for a bit. I would definitely do that, since this sounds like a hardware problem to me. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.ne

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-22 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /root drwx-- 15

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade (and squeeze, previously)

2013-09-22 Thread Damon Getsman
machine down for a bit. -Damon > From: Gary Roach > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade [Snip] > On 09/20/2013 08:40 PM, drew craig wrote: > > I ran into an alsa issue awhile back and solved it by altering the conf file. May o

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-21 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > In reply to your question: > >root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa >root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /root >drwx-- 15 gary gary 4096 Sep 3 18:21 /root I do

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/21/2013 02:39 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:46:45AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: root@mysystem:/etc# service alsa-utils restart [ ok ] Shutting down ALSA...done. [] Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'Home

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-21 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:46:45AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > root@mysystem:/etc# service alsa-utils restart > [ ok ] Shutting down ALSA...done. > [] Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed > with error message 'Home directory /root not > ours.'..

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-21 Thread Klaus
On 19/09/13 14:36, Lisi Reisz wrote: I am still struggling with this. Any suggestions, please? Many thanks, Lisi From your earlier messages I gather that you have a mother board with the Z77 chipset, and a Realtek ALC887 codec. Searching around I found a few bug reports, from which it appears

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/20/2013 08:40 PM, drew craig wrote: On Friday, September 13, 2013 10:00:03 AM UTC-4, Lisi Reisz wrote: The problem has arisen since I upgraded. Sound was fine in Squeeze. Now, when I run alsamixergui: lisi@Tux-II:~$ alsamixergui I get an error box saying: alsamixer: function s

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-20 Thread drew craig
On Friday, September 13, 2013 10:00:03 AM UTC-4, Lisi Reisz wrote: > The problem has arisen since I upgraded. Sound was fine in Squeeze. > > > > Now, when I run alsamixergui: > > > > lisi@Tux-II:~$ alsamixergui > > > > I get an error box saying: > > > > alsamixer: function snd_mixer_lo

Re: Sound on Skype (sid)

2013-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 15 iul 13, 12:41:26, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > > Installed ALSA - > > http://linuxg.net/how-to-properly-replace-pulseaudio-with-alsa-on-crunchbag-linux-and-debian-squeeze/ > > Works. Wonderful!! > > How do I get Linux to recognize ALSA. As far as Linux is concerned, > my sound driv

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-19 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 02:36:11PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am still struggling with this. I have come to the conclusion that the only > way that I personally am going to succeed with this is to edit a > configuration file, but I cannot find what to edit to. I have found advice > on editin

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 16 September 2013 23:20:21 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 16 September 2013 22:02:05 Gregory Nowak wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:51:17AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > I had thought that sound was probably muted somewhere - I just couldn't > > > find where! amixer shows it clearly

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-17 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 23:20:21 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 16 September 2013 22:02:05 Gregory Nowak wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:51:17AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > I had thought that sound was probably muted somewhere - I just > > > couldn't find where! amixer shows it clearly

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 16 September 2013 22:02:05 Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:51:17AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I had thought that sound was probably muted somewhere - I just couldn't > > find where! amixer shows it clearly. All (all? ;-) ) I now have to do > > is use the man pages to

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 16 September 2013 14:10:38 rudu wrote: > Le 16/09/2013 10:51, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > On Monday 16 September 2013 01:41:29 Gregory Nowak wrote: > >> I suggest you run either amixer/alsamixer, > >> and see if they will let you unmute sound. > > > > I had tried to run alsamixer. It gave m

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-16 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:51:17AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I had thought that sound was probably muted somewhere - I just couldn't find > where! amixer shows it clearly. All (all? ;-) ) I now have to do is use the > man pages to find out how to unmute the master at the command line. I have

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-16 Thread rudu
Le 16/09/2013 10:51, Lisi Reisz a écrit : On Monday 16 September 2013 01:41:29 Gregory Nowak wrote: I suggest you run either amixer/alsamixer, and see if they will let you unmute sound. I had tried to run alsamixer. It gave me two channels, neither of which helped. (master and capture) I tied

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 16 September 2013 01:41:29 Gregory Nowak wrote: > I suggest you run either amixer/alsamixer, > and see if they will let you unmute sound. I had tried to run alsamixer. It gave me two channels, neither of which helped. (master and capture) I tied all possible variations that I could t

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-15 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 07:58:20AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > FWIW ... > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > No sound :-( but loads of output. I cut the longest one short. See > > http://paste.ubuntu.com/6112471/ > > > >> Seeing the output of: > >> > >> pactl list cards > >

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-15 Thread Joel Rees
FWIW ... On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 15 September 2013 21:11:47 Gregory Nowak wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 07:19:17PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > I'm afraid that I am woefully ignorant about sound, and cannot interpret >> > anything there. >> >> Well, it

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 15 September 2013 21:11:47 Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 07:19:17PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I'm afraid that I am woefully ignorant about sound, and cannot interpret > > anything there. > > Well, it seems to say that aplay is recognizing your sound hardware. I > get s

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-15 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 07:19:17PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I'm afraid that I am woefully ignorant about sound, and cannot interpret > anything there. Well, it seems to say that aplay is recognizing your sound hardware. I get something similar when I run aplay -L, but with hardware different fr

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
Hello, Dan. Thanks for your help. Between now and the email from Gregory I had installed pulseaudio. I can now run alsamixergui, but there are only two channels, master and chapter, and nothing I do to either enables sound. On Sunday 15 September 2013 19:02:48 Dan Ritter wrote: > aplay -L > >

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
Thanks for the reply, Gregory. :-) On Sunday 15 September 2013 04:31:15 Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 02:58:27PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > The problem has arisen since I upgraded. Sound was fine in Squeeze. > > > > Now, when I run alsamixergui: > > > > lisi@Tux-II:~$ alsamixer

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-14 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 02:58:27PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > The problem has arisen since I upgraded. Sound was fine in Squeeze. > > Now, when I run alsamixergui: > > lisi@Tux-II:~$ alsamixergui > > I get an error box saying: > > alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: invalid argument Us

Re: Sound on Skype (sid)

2013-07-15 Thread Doug
On 7/15/2013 1:19 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - The sound on Skype (sid) is impossible!! It is so chopped up that it is impossible to make a call. The sound recorder and audio streams [YouTube, video on Wall Street Journal] work perfectly. Any suggestions? TIA Ethan You mig

Re: Sound on Skype (sid)

2013-07-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
You could check if Skype is using pulseaudio. If so, you could try alsa. Regards, Vivek. - Original Message - From: "Ethan Rosenberg, PhD" To: "Debian Users List" Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 10:49:24 AM Subject: Sound on Skype (sid) Dear List - The sound on Skype (sid) is impossib

Re: Sound on Skype (sid)

2013-07-15 Thread Vivek Periaraj
You could check if Skype is using pulseaudio. If so, you could try alsa. Regards, Vivek. - Original Message - From: "Ethan Rosenberg, PhD" To: "Debian Users List" Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 10:49:24 AM Subject: Sound on Skype (sid) Dear List - The sound on Skype (sid) is i

Re: Sound on Skype (sid)

2013-07-15 Thread Valery Mamonov
Using skype on sid (via ALSA), since version 2.x - no chopped sound at all. Also i had changed the motherboard - had no problems with changed sound playback devices. 2013/7/15 Paul Johnson > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD < > erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com> wrote: > >>

Re: Sound on Skype (sid)

2013-07-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD < erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com> wrote: > The sound on Skype (sid) is impossible!! It is so chopped up that it is > impossible to make a call. The sound recorder and audio streams [YouTube, > video on Wall Street Journal] work perfectly. U

Re: Sound from scratch on desktop

2013-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:37:43 +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: What do I need to add to get sound on Wheezy? I've installed pulseaudio but can't find any application added to the menus Sound & Video, Accessories, or Preferences. http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - No Solution But Alternatives Work

2013-06-10 Thread Alois Mahdal
Hi, On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:02:59 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:15:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George > wrote: > > My system is Wheezy. > > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > > cdir lists the tracks on the cd. >

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - No Solution But Alternatives Work

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:15:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > My system is Wheezy. > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > cdir lists the tracks on the cd. > A lot of interesting suggestions were made but nothing solved the problem. Bo

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:28:32 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:55:59PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:14:00 -0400 > > "Thomas H. George" wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:15:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > My system is Wheezy.

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 iun 13, 14:28:32, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I don't understand why there is no cd source volume sider in alsamixer. > There used to be one. Still that is probably irrelevant as there is > sound output from the cd as proved by ripit which writes an ogg file > that ogg123 can play with

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:28:32 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: Hello Thomas, >I don't understand why there is no cd source volume sider in alsamixer. Third time lucky; I fired up alsamixer (I don't usually use it) and found that I had to increase the width of the console window to view all the mi

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:28:32 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: Hello Thomas, >I don't understand why there is no cd source volume sider in alsamixer. >There used to be one. Ignore me; I misread your post. I'm talking about KMix, not alsamixer. Sorry for the noise. -- Regards _ / )

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:28:32 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: Hello Thomas, >I don't understand why there is no cd source volume sider in alsamixer. >There used to be one. Still that is probably irrelevant as there is As I said before, you have to add it from the prefs; Settings menu -> Configu

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:55:59PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:14:00 -0400 > "Thomas H. George" wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:15:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > My system is Wheezy. > > > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > > > workbone plays t

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-06 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:14:00 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:15:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > My system is Wheezy. > > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > > cdir lists the tracks on the cd. > > > Co

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-06 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 04:14:00PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:15:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > My system is Wheezy. > > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > > cdir lists the tracks on the cd. > >

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-06 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:15:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > My system is Wheezy. > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > cdir lists the tracks on the cd. > Could this be a pulseaudio problem? Something wrong in my setup? In /etc/fst

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

2013-06-06 Thread Kent West
On 06/05/2013 12:46 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 02:50:09AM -0500, Kent West wrote: On 6/5/13 2:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 04 iun 13, 09:15:35, Thomas H. George wrote: My system is Wheezy. ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. workbone plays the cd but th

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

2013-06-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 19:00:52 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: Hello Brad, >KMix version 4.4, KDE 4.8.4 here. Oops! KMix 4.1 -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" A friend of a friend he got beaten I Predict A Riot - Kaiser

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

2013-06-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 13:38:47 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: Hello Thomas, >Indeed alsamixer used to show a seperate CD channel but not any more. >Maybe it still should and this is the problem? Settings menu, Configure Channels... KMix version 4.4, KDE 4.8.4 here. -- Regards _ / )

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

2013-06-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 02:50:09AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > On 6/5/13 2:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 04 iun 13, 09:15:35, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> My system is Wheezy. > >> ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > >> workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > >> cdir lists

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

2013-06-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 10:18:50AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 04 iun 13, 09:15:35, Thomas H. George wrote: > > My system is Wheezy. > > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > > cdir lists the tracks on the cd. > > This may be obvi

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

2013-06-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:32:39PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 09:15:35 -0400 > "Thomas H. George" wrote: > > > My system is Wheezy. > > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > > cdir lists the tracks on the cd. > > I'm n

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

2013-06-05 Thread Kailash
On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:50:09 -0500 Kent West wrote: > On 6/5/13 2:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 04 iun 13, 09:15:35, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> My system is Wheezy. > >> ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > >> workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > >> cdir lists the

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

2013-06-05 Thread Kent West
On 6/5/13 2:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 04 iun 13, 09:15:35, Thomas H. George wrote: >> My system is Wheezy. >> ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. >> workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. >> cdir lists the tracks on the cd. > > This may be obvious to you, but... the CD us

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

2013-06-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 04 iun 13, 09:15:35, Thomas H. George wrote: > My system is Wheezy. > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > cdir lists the tracks on the cd. This may be obvious to you, but... the CD usually has a dedicated channel. Did you check the

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

2013-06-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 09:15:35 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > My system is Wheezy. > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > cdir lists the tracks on the cd. I'm not familiar with workbone but try loading snd_pcm_oss and snd_mixer_oss with mo

Re: Sound Problem -- More Information

2013-04-07 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 23:40:49 +1300 Chris Bannister 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" > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Sound

Re: sound juicer over-range

2013-03-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
For the sake of future searches for this thread, "clipping" is a better keyword than is "over-range". And I finally realized that the distortion associated with the clipping which I am experiencing is very much like sibilance or the distortion produced by a kazoo. %%% I searched for discussions

Re: sound juicer over-range

2013-03-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Aubrey Raech [130307 04:15]: > On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 23:14:47 + > "Russell L. Harris" wrote: ... >> It occurs to me that I could use an editor such as Audacity to >> reduce the signal amplitude; but I do not know whether that >> approach would give results which are sonically-pleasing. ... >

Re: sound juicer over-range

2013-03-06 Thread Aubrey Raech
On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 23:14:47 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > On a broadcast-grade CD deck with high-resolution bar-graph meter with > over-range indicator, the playback sounds clean and no over-range > distortion ("spattering") is obvious. > > However, when the SPDIF output from a playback de

Re: sound juicer over-range

2013-03-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Aubrey Raech [130306 22:27]: ... > > > Sound Juicer 2.28.2 in Debian Squeeze (i386) was easy to use, ran > > quickly, and appeared to function properly when ripping tracks of an > > audiobook CD to .flac files. > > > > But upon subsequent listening to the .flac files, over-ranges about > > onc

Re: sound juicer over-range

2013-03-06 Thread Aubrey Raech
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 17:10:30 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > Sound Juicer 2.28.2 in Debian Squeeze (i386) was easy to use, ran > quickly, and appeared to function properly when ripping tracks of an > audiobook CD to .flac files. > > But upon sub

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Brian wrote: > > The advice given at > > > http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/adding-an-alsa-software-pre-amp-to-fix-low-sound-levels/ > > does work. There is an extra control in alsamixer and rebooting is > not necessary to get it. See how you go on. > > Well, that

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-26 Thread Brian
On Wed 26 Sep 2012 at 16:06:21 +0100, Brian wrote: > The advice given at > > > http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/adding-an-alsa-software-pre-amp-to-fix-low-sound-levels/ > > does work. There is an extra control in alsamixer and rebooting is > not necessary to get it. See how you go on. I forg

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-26 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Sep 2012 at 21:49:58 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: > On 09/25/2012 04:21 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > >On Sep 25, 2012 12:18 PM, "Conrad Nelson" >> wrote: > > > >> Any ideas on why ALSA is suddenly outputting my sound so very > >quietly despite my volume level

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > There are two possibilities I can think of. One is that you're using > pulseaudio and not checking its volume level (to confirm this, start > alsamixer and press F6 to select a different 'card'). > Didn't think I was using pulseaudio, checked

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-26 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi Conrad, Please do not reply to an un-related post when you are writing a new topic to a mailing list. For clients that support threading, the result is your discussion mixed up with the other one. This can mean either confusion for people participating in the other thread, or less exposure for

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-26 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:17:44PM -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I have a conundrum for you. > > Today I had rebooted into Windows to take care of something and when > I booted right back into debian, my sound became very very very > quiet. To confirm my hardware wasn't on the

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-25 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/25/2012 04:21 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sep 25, 2012 12:18 PM, "Conrad Nelson" > wrote: > Any ideas on why ALSA is suddenly outputting my sound so very quietly despite my volume levels being all the way up? Annoyingly, this has always been a problem for me wi

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sep 25, 2012 12:18 PM, "Conrad Nelson" wrote: > Any ideas on why ALSA is suddenly outputting my sound so very quietly despite my volume levels being all the way up? Annoyingly, this has always been a problem for me with a Thinkpad T400. I'd be interested in a fix, too.

Re: Sound kaput after dist-upgrade on 15-8-2012

2012-08-17 Thread Charles Kroeger
kaput means dead...! I've removed flashplayer-mozilla..didn't care for it anyway, and suspected it had something to do with buggering up my sound. However after purging still nothing. Now I haven't rebooted yet and I may be blaming the harmless flashplayer unjustly, but I'm I the 'only' one that

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 09:01:23AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > It is still not fixed for me. I am getting the udev errors during > startup and then get to the logon point with no mouse or keyboard. > To get them, I have to unplug and plug them in again and they come > back. I can then login. >

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-16 Thread Alan Chandler
On 15/06/12 07:28, Alan Chandler wrote: On 14/06/12 22:27, Alan Chandler wrote: I upgraded my sid system with the latest set of packages. I have now lost by sound, but I am not sure why. When I run alsamixer as root I see a device that appears to be the sound chip on my motherboard, and usi

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 22:27 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I presume I have a pulseaudio problem I never heard about issues with PA. It's the best sound server ever. All DEs should make it a dependency and people should stop whining about PA and stop spreading FUD. There's nothing as fantastic as P

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
On 14/06/12 22:27, Alan Chandler wrote: I upgraded my sid system with the latest set of packages. I have now lost by sound, but I am not sure why. When I run alsamixer as root I see a device that appears to be the sound chip on my motherboard, and using aplay to send a .wav file works. If

Re: Sound on Squeeze

2012-05-30 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 30 May 2012 09:58:01 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 29 mai 12, 21:57:36, Lisi wrote: [snip] > > Simple mixer control 'Front',0 > > Capabilities: pvolume pswitch penum > > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right > > Limits: Playback 0 - 64 > > Mono: > > Front Left: Playbac

Re: Sound on Squeeze

2012-05-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 29 mai 12, 21:57:36, Lisi wrote: > > john@Squeeze:/proc/asound$ amixer > Simple mixer control 'Master',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum > Playback channels: Mono > Limits: Playback 0 - 64 > Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Master is max an

Re: Sound on Squeeze

2012-05-29 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 29 May 2012 19:38:13 Javier Vasquez wrote: > BTW, if using USB sound device then care must be taken cause debian > always set usb device as non 1st device: Thanks, Javier. But it is on the motherboard. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Sound on Squeeze

2012-05-29 Thread Lisi
Thanks for your help, Joe. On Tuesday 29 May 2012 19:08:45 Joe wrote: > Very first question: is the user in the audio group? Absolutely vital. Yes. > Next quick question: do you have more than one sound device e.g. > motherboard and USB sound card? If so, you may be looking at the wrong > one. S

Re: Sound on Squeeze

2012-05-29 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 29 May 2012 20:04:28 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 29 mai 12, 17:55:22, Lisi wrote: > > Hello, all! > > > > On a new installation of Squeeze the sound is muted.  I have checked > > Alsamixer and made sure that master and PCM are not muted, as recommended > > by Claudius. But sound is st

Re: Sound on Squeeze

2012-05-29 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 29 May 2012 19:08:45 Joe wrote: > Probably tutorials on Linux sound... These don't help much, because they assume that you know about sound and just want to know how it works on Linux. :-( Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Sound on Squeeze

2012-05-29 Thread Joe
On Tue, 29 May 2012 12:38:13 -0600 Javier Vasquez wrote: > > > BTW, if using USB sound device then care must be taken cause debian > always set usb device as non 1st device: > > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf > > 16 # Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard > 17 options snd

Re: Sound on Squeeze

2012-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 29 mai 12, 17:55:22, Lisi wrote: > Hello, all! > > On a new installation of Squeeze the sound is muted. I have checked > Alsamixer > and made sure that master and PCM are not muted, as recommended by Claudius. > But sound is still muted. > > A large part of the problem is that I am

Re: Sound on Squeeze

2012-05-29 Thread keith
On Tue, 29 May 2012 17:55:22 +0100 Lisi wrote: > Where do I look next? And for what do I look? > Sometimes its the speaker volume you need. -- keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: Sound on Squeeze

2012-05-29 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2012 17:55:22 +0100 > Lisi wrote: > >> Hello, all! >> >> On a new installation of Squeeze the sound is muted.  I have checked >> Alsamixer and made sure that master and PCM are not muted, as >> recommended by Claudius. But sound is sti

Re: Sound on Squeeze

2012-05-29 Thread Joe
On Tue, 29 May 2012 17:55:22 +0100 Lisi wrote: > Hello, all! > > On a new installation of Squeeze the sound is muted. I have checked > Alsamixer and made sure that master and PCM are not muted, as > recommended by Claudius. But sound is still muted. > > A large part of the problem is that I

Re: Sound on Squeeze

2012-05-29 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 29 May 2012 17:55:22 Lisi wrote: > (other than, thanks to Claudius, the 00s in Alsamixer for Master > and PCM) :-( I even got that wrong. PCM has no entry for muting and unmuting. I had unmuted the next column, not PCM. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: Sound on Lenny

2012-05-22 Thread Lisi
On Monday 14 May 2012 17:18:52 Claudius Hubig wrote: > "m" mutes (small MM at the bottom) > or unmutes (green 00 at the bottom) the mixer. Thank you so much. This is what I didn't know. Now I am in urgent need of sound for an online course, I have it. :-) \o/ Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Sound on Lenny

2012-05-14 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Lisi, Lisi wrote: > Yes, I know. I shouldn't be using Lenny, and had in fact already tried to > change to Squeeze, but had trouble with my mail, and reverted. > > But I am soon going to be installing on a new box, so am waiting until then. > > That's the excuses out of the way. ;-) > >

Re: Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:40:17 -0400 "Rob Owens row...@ptd.net" suggested this: >On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 09:40:07PM +1000, Charlie wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:30:35 +1000 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au" >> suggested this: >> >> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:58:05 +1000 "Charlie >> > aries...@

Re: Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:02:25 +0100 "Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk" suggested this: >It sounds like you succeeded. It reading the microphone and putting >it out through your headphones. > >Sorry can't help you turn it off - but presumably doing something your >were doing to turn it o

Re: Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 09:40:07PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:30:35 +1000 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au" > suggested this: > > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:58:05 +1000 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au" > > suggested this: > > > >> > >>I have turned on something on my laptop us

Re: Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Alan Chandler
On 25/04/12 11:58, Charlie wrote: So that it produces constant feedback [background buzzing] and the sound of clicking on my keyboard when typing. I have no idea what I turned on, but can't turn it off. I was trying to get my microphone working. Can someone please help. It sounds like you succ

Re: Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:30:35 +1000 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au" suggested this: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:58:05 +1000 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au" > suggested this: > >> >>I have turned on something on my laptop using: >> >>Debian wheezy 3.2.0-2-686-pae using fvwm >> >>So that it produc

Re: Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:58:05 +1000 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au" suggested this: > >I have turned on something on my laptop using: > >Debian wheezy 3.2.0-2-686-pae using fvwm > >So that it produces constant feedback [background buzzing] and the >sound of clicking on my keyboard when typing.

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