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

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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 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

Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
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 No pulseaudia is installed. I get the same problem on a fresh install of Wheez