Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 06:42:58PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: But we don't really know much about what the OP did. We haven't heard from him since his initial enquiry. He may not even be subscribed. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread William Hadfield-Burkardt
I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k. Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package manager) a speech recognition software (pocketsphinx). I removed it without ever having used it. Now the audio does not work. Neither in the browser

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 July 2015 15:20:26 William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k. Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package manager) a speech recognition software (pocketsphinx). I removed it without ever

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Jape Person
On 07/20/2015 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k. Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package manager) a speech recognition software (pocketsphinx). I removed it without ever having used

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread David Guyot
Hi, William. Did you try to purge the package using apt-get purge pocketsphinx? This will remove its config files, which are usually left behind on uninstall to quickly restore the previous config if you ever re-install it. Note that this doesn't mean you don't have to provide the data Jape

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k. Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package manager) a speech recognition software (pocketsphinx). I removed it without ever having used

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/07/15 11:43 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 16:37:58 Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 11:13 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 15:53:33 Gary Dale wrote: Yes. You can switch to root, purge then reinstall the sound package (pulseaudio). The OP used Synaptic. Can this

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 July 2015 18:04:33 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 17:35:43 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian.

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k.

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/07/15 01:04 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 17:35:43 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 18:42:58 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: Post hoc yet again not meaning propter hoc ;-) Please do not try to bedazzle us Redbrick types with your fancy Latin. It puts us off our drink. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 13:41:12 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 01:04 PM, Brian wrote: Only in the sense that it is possible there are fairies at the bottom of my garden. :) More seriously: the OP never ran the program. The installation-purging cycle is easy enough for anyone to carry

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 17:35:43 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured the system for me. It was

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 22:11:28 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: I feel that he must at least have run it once, even if he did nothing with it. And that it may have tinkered with some settings and not restored them when it was purged. Instead of having a feeling you could run the software and

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 15:57:36 -0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): If I were the OP I'd be thinking I was in la-la land by now. Well it's just possible that the OP, on getting the responses Yes and No, is going back to his installer for advice. My posting

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 July 2015 21:57:36 David Wright wrote: Well it's just possible that the OP, on getting the responses Yes and No, is going back to his installer for advice. My posting was in reply to Lisi. Going by the people whom I support, having been told that we couldn't offer himn a simple

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 July 2015 22:49:34 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 22:11:28 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: I feel that he must at least have run it once, even if he did nothing with it. And that it may have tinkered with some settings and not restored them when it was purged. Instead of having

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 July 2015 22:50:30 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 15:57:36 -0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): If I were the OP I'd be thinking I was in la-la land by now. Well it's just possible that the OP, on getting the responses Yes and No, is going

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 13:29:59 -0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): It is possible, is it not, that pocketshinx mutes something by default and hasn't unmuted it? I haven't come to grips with sound on

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 July 2015 19:05:11 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 18:42:58 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: Post hoc yet again not meaning propter hoc ;-) Please do not try to bedazzle us Redbrick types with your fancy Latin. It puts us off our drink. :) :-)) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 18:04:33 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 17:35:43 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 13:29:59 -0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): It is possible, is it not, that pocketshinx mutes something by default and hasn't unmuted it? I haven't come to grips with sound on jessie yet, so an earlier thread this month (State

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/07/15 11:13 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 20 July 2015 15:53:33 Gary Dale wrote: Yes. You can switch to root, purge then reinstall the sound package (pulseaudio). The OP used Synaptic. Can this be done in Synaptic? Lisi Yes. You mark the package for complete removal instead of

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k. Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package manager) a speech recognition

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote: On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k. Then I downloaded and installed (using the

Re: audio restore functionaility

2015-07-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 15:57:36 -0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): If I were the OP I'd be thinking I was in la-la land by now. Well it's just possible that the OP, on getting the responses Yes and No, is going