Re: No Sound - Puzzle - Losing Ground

2017-11-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
paperweights and I have had problems with pulseaudio in the past too. On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, Thomas George wrote: Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 20:41:05 From: Thomas George <li...@tomgeorge.info> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: No Sound - Puzzle - Losing Ground Resent-Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2

Re: No Sound - Puzzle - Losing Ground

2017-11-17 Thread Thomas George
Ok, my mistake, I thought MM meant click on M to mute That corrected but now no sound even from the onboard soundcard. Everything looks like it should work. Pulseaudio volume control/Output Devices shows three devices: HDMI, the DSX sound care with port headphones and the Built-in Audio

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-17 Thread deloptes
davidson wrote: > That is muted. MM is mute. but OP said he unmuted it in the next statement

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-17 Thread davidson
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, Thomas George wrote: The channels in alsamixer are not muted. All show MM That is muted. MM is mute. and I have used the m key to turn them off and back on to be sure. Good luck with your project.

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-17 Thread deloptes
Thomas George wrote: > default_driver=alsa > > quiet > > Is there another setting other than quiet? But this can't be the > problem. ogg123 file.ogg plays file when the line out cable is connected > to the onboard sound card. no this "quite" is related to output information from the process -

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-17 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/16/2017 11:20 PM, Thomas George wrote: I also wish alsa had a signal strength monitor. Maybe I should reinstall pulseaudio. Pulse rests on top of ALSA. If ALSA not workee then Pulse doesn't stand a chance. -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-17 Thread Thomas George
The channels in alsamixer are not muted. All show MM and I have used the m key to turn them off and back on to be sure. I will reinstall pulseaudio and try to select the appropriate input. I thought there might be a setting in ogg123 to select the sound card to use but the man page directed

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-16 Thread deloptes
Thomas George wrote: > I also wish alsa had a signal strength monitor. Maybe I should reinstall > pulseaudio. This is not a bad idea as pulseaudio is designed to work on top of alsa and to make life easier. In pulseaudio you can control your input and output, perhaps it is worth looking in all

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-16 Thread Thomas George
to:li...@tomgeorge.info>> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org> >> Subject: Re: No Sound - Puzzle >> Resent-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:28:49 + (UTC) >> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org <mailto:debi

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
;li...@tomgeorge.info> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: No Sound - Puzzle Resent-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:43:22 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org I would like to try this but there is no pamixer. apropos pulseaudio shows many pa... commands but no pamixer. apt

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-16 Thread deloptes
Thomas George wrote: > I would like to try this but there is no pamixer. apropos pulseaudio > shows many pa... commands but no pamixer. apt-cache search pamixer > returns a blank line. > $ ls /dev/snd/controlC* /dev/snd/controlC0 /dev/snd/controlC1 you have two cards to access first card use

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-16 Thread Jeroen Mathon
homas George wrote: > > > >> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 18:21:07 > >> From: Thomas George <li...@tomgeorge.info> > >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >> Subject: Re: No Sound - Puzzle > >> Resent-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:28:49 + (UT

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-16 Thread Thomas George
not by alsamixer.  Remember pulseaudio when installed manages alsa and not the other way around. On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Thomas George wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 18:21:07 From: Thomas George <li...@tomgeorge.info> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: No Sound - Puzzle Resent-Dat

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
;li...@tomgeorge.info> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: No Sound - Puzzle Resent-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:28:49 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org From a terminal run alsamixer, f6, select Xonar DSX On another terminal cd to a directory of ogg files, start a playback of a

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-15 Thread Joel Roth
A lot of folks (myself included) manage just fine without pulseaudio. ALSA is already complicated and capable enough for them. Some sophisticated users route pulseaudio through JACK, so that the pulseaudio daemon doesn't grab exclusive use of the ALSA device. Good luck! On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-15 Thread Thomas George
From a terminal run alsamixer, f6, select Xonar DSX On another terminal cd to a directory of ogg files, start a playback of a file. Oh the desktop start pulse audio volume control. Monitor shows strong active playback levels Switch to terminal running alsamixer, mute master front which