Re: getting sound in Sid

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 02:00:09PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 08:18:54AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > I found that /etc/apt/preferences/systemd has these two lines: > > > > package systemd: *systemd* > > Pin: origin ""\Pin-Priority: -1 > > > > This looked

Re: getting sound in Sid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 08:18:54AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:10:51PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 03:26:55PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Aptitude install does not

Re: getting sound in Sid

> I apologize for my ignorance. I didn't realize that aptitude would > install recommended packages Indeed. I put Aptitude::Recommends-Important "False"; in my /etc/apt/apt.conf years ago and never looked back. Stefan

Re: getting sound in Sid

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:10:51PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 03:26:55PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > [...] > > > Aptitude install does not list it as a requirement, but when I go to > > install either pulseaudio or pavucontrol it says the following NEW > >

Re: getting sound in Sid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 09:11:50AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 02:00:09PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 08:18:54AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > > I found that /etc/apt/preferences/systemd has

Re: getting sound in Sid

Well, I was too overconfident, I make sure pulseaudio auto-spans: $ cat /etc/pulse/client.conf | grep autospawn $ ; autospawn = yes I do: $ pulseaudio It says service unkown; ConsoleKit did not provide any .service files. Failed to load

Re: getting sound in Sid

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 08:30:32AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Haines Brown wrote: > > > > > However, Skype's audio breaks up and video is terrible, which > > is why I'm trying to set Skype up on my Sid laptop. > > Are you sue that the wheezy system is responsible for that braking up? > And why

Re: getting sound in Sid

Haines Brown wrote: > > On my desktop, I'm running Debian Wheezy and Skype 4.3.0.37-1. I > installed pulseaudio and pavucontrol, and after some fiddling got Skype > working. The absence of systemd on this machine causes no problems, > although I see that libsystemd-daemon0 and libsystemd-login0

Re: getting sound in Sid

On Sun 24 Jan 2016 at 14:29:57 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:50:51PM +0100, Floris wrote: > > Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:25:20 +0100 schreef Haines Brown > > : > > > > >I apparently have ALSA on Debian Sid on a Thinkpad, or at least > > >alsa-mixer seems

Re: getting sound in Sid

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:50:51PM +0100, Floris wrote: > Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:25:20 +0100 schreef Haines Brown > : > > >I apparently have ALSA on Debian Sid on a Thinkpad, or at least > >alsa-mixer seems set up correctly. But $ speaker-test makes no sound. > > ... > Alsa

Re: getting sound in Sid

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:10:45PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > First using # dpkg -l grep | alsa > everything listed, remove with # dpkg -P (packages) You can list them all > with a > space between each for a sequential purge. Seriously? Why on earth would anyone purge alsa? -- "If you're

Re: getting sound in Sid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 03:26:55PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: [...] > Aptitude install does not list it as a requirement, but when I go to > install either pulseaudio or pavucontrol it says the following NEW > packages will be installed [...]

Re: getting sound in Sid

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 07:53:52PM +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 24 Jan 2016 at 14:29:57 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:50:51PM +0100, Floris wrote: > > > Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:25:20 +0100 schreef Haines Brown > > > : > > > > > > >I apparently

Re: getting sound in Sid

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 09:58:24PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Last skype version which worked without pulse was 4.2 (4.2.0.13). > So if you want to run the 4.3 you need pulse and probably systemd, though I > was running it with pulse without systemd in jessie, so this must be > something new and

Re: getting sound in Sid

On Sun 24 Jan 2016 at 16:37:06 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > So the question is, what does it mean if $ aptitude show > pulseaudio/pavucontrol does not show systemd as a dependent, but when I > start to install either, systemd will be installed. There should be a > way to install them while

Re: getting sound in Sid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:12:16PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 08:42:49 +0100 wrote: > > > BTW: I have sound, am running a combination of stable and unstable > > ?? As in: base system is stable, some packages

Re: getting sound in Sid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:10:45PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:00:02 +0100 > Floris wrote: > > > Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:25:20 +0100 schreef Haines Brown > > : > > > > > I apparently

Re: getting sound in Sid

On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 08:42:49 +0100 wrote: > BTW: I have sound, am running a combination of stable and unstable ??

getting sound in Sid

I apparently have ALSA on Debian Sid on a Thinkpad, or at least alsa-mixer seems set up correctly. But $ speaker-test makes no sound. # lspci | grep audio returns nothing. So I wondered if alsa drivers are installed. Soundcore is installed, but I discovered there is no longer any alsa-modules

Re: getting sound in Sid

Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:25:20 +0100 schreef Haines Brown : I apparently have ALSA on Debian Sid on a Thinkpad, or at least alsa-mixer seems set up correctly. But $ speaker-test makes no sound. # lspci | grep audio returns nothing. So I wondered if alsa drivers are

Re: getting sound in Sid

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:00:02 +0100 Floris wrote: > Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:25:20 +0100 schreef Haines Brown > : > > > I apparently have ALSA on Debian Sid on a Thinkpad, or at least > > alsa-mixer seems set up correctly. But $ speaker-test makes no sound.