[ABANDONED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-04-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 16:50:03 -00 Peter Humphrey wrote: > The USB sound dongle on this workstation has stopped working, but only for > me. The system settings Audio setup window detects it but no sound is heard > (I nearly said none appears :) . It worked a week ago, and it still works >

Re: [NOT SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-26 Thread Jack
On 2022.03.26 10:22, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 6:29 AM Jack wrote: > > On 3/26/22 07:12, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I haven't mentioned it before, but whenever I restart PA I get a plain window > > announcing something like "Audio Adapter Y247A. Analog audio". It only

Re: [NOT SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-26 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 26 March 2022 17:14:52 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 10:02 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday, 26 March 2022 15:14:11 GMT ny6p01 wrote: > > > Just a shot in the dark, but is alsasound service starting correctly? > > > > It doesn't run at all, not even while

Re: [NOT SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 10:02 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday, 26 March 2022 15:14:11 GMT ny6p01 wrote: > > Just a shot in the dark, but is alsasound service starting correctly? > > It doesn't run at all, not even while I'm listening after restarting PA. I > have alsa-lib,

Re: [NOT SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 26 March 2022 15:14:11 GMT ny6p01 wrote: > Just a shot in the dark, but is alsasound service starting correctly? It doesn't run at all, not even while I'm listening after restarting PA. I have alsa-lib, alsa-topology-conf, alsa-ucm-conf and alsa-plugins installed, but 'ps -ax |

Re: [NOT SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-26 Thread ny6p01
Just a shot in the dark, but is alsasound service starting correctly? Lee  On Mar 26, 2022 at 6:29 AM, Jack wrote: On 3/26/22 07:12, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I haven't mentioned it before, but whenever I restart PA I get a plain window > announcing something like "Audio Adapter Y247A. Analog

Re: [NOT SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 6:29 AM Jack wrote: > > On 3/26/22 07:12, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I haven't mentioned it before, but whenever I restart PA I get a plain > > window > > announcing something like "Audio Adapter Y247A. Analog audio". It only > > exists > > for a second or so and I

Re: [NOT SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-26 Thread Jack
On 3/26/22 07:12, Peter Humphrey wrote: I haven't mentioned it before, but whenever I restart PA I get a plain window announcing something like "Audio Adapter Y247A. Analog audio". It only exists for a second or so and I haven't been able to capture it in a screen shot. It isn't a standard KDE

Re: [NOT SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 25 March 2022 16:47:22 GMT Jack wrote: > On 2022.03.25 12:16, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Have you also tried using a different browser? Yes. Konqueror behaves the same way. I had the site open in FF just now, but not playing, and I hadn't restarted PA. Then I opened the same site in

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 25 March 2022 17:49:59 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 25/03/2022 15:01, Jack wrote: > > That second icon in the upper left looks to me (squinting a bit) like it > > might be a life saver ring buoy, but that doesn't help me in guessing > > what generated it. Did you find anything in dmesg

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-25 Thread Wols Lists
On 25/03/2022 15:01, Jack wrote: That second icon in the upper left looks to me (squinting a bit) like it might be a life saver ring buoy, but that doesn't help me in guessing what generated it.  Did you find anything in dmesg or /var/log/messages? VLC? Cheers, Wol

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-25 Thread Jack
On 2022.03.25 12:16, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 25 March 2022 09:31:44 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > I went through Jack's points one by one and answered each of them as I went. > I got almost to the end before finding the answer. Jump straight to the end > if you just want to see the

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 25 March 2022 16:34:30 GMT Michael wrote: > On Friday, 25 March 2022 16:16:10 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 25 March 2022 09:31:44 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I went through Jack's points one by one and answered each of them as I > > > went. I got almost to the end before

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-25 Thread Michael
On Friday, 25 March 2022 16:16:10 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 25 March 2022 09:31:44 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I went through Jack's points one by one and answered each of them as I > > went. I got almost to the end before finding the answer. Jump straight to > > the end if you just

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 25 March 2022 09:31:44 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > I went through Jack's points one by one and answered each of them as I went. > I got almost to the end before finding the answer. Jump straight to the end > if you just want to see the fix, or read on for the detail. Hey, not so fast!

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-25 Thread Jack
Glad it's solved, but you missed one point of picking it up a bit earlier.  Notes below: On 3/25/22 05:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: I went through Jack's points one by one and answered each of them as I went. I got almost to the end before finding the answer. Jump straight to the end if you just

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-25 Thread ny6p01
Glad you got it working! Lee  On Mar 25, 2022 at 2:32 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I went through Jack's points one by one and answered each of them as I went. I got almost to the end before finding the answer. Jump straight to the end if you just want to see the fix, or read on for the detail.

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
I went through Jack's points one by one and answered each of them as I went. I got almost to the end before finding the answer. Jump straight to the end if you just want to see the fix, or read on for the detail. On Thursday, 24 March 2022 16:40:05 GMT Jack wrote: > On 2022.03.24 05:55, Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-24 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 24 March 2022 22:04:48 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 2:35 AM Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > > > System Settings -> Audio > > > > > > should show your playback devices. Possibly the setting got switched to > > > an HDMI output on your video card or to the chipset

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 2:35 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > System Settings -> Audio > > > > should show your playback devices. Possibly the setting got switched to > > an HDMI output on your video card or to the chipset sound device > > and isn't USB at the moment? > > As I said, I do see all

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-24 Thread Jack
On 2022.03.24 05:55, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday, 24 March 2022 09:43:49 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm about to try pavu[...] as you suggested. No dice. All that does is to allow me to set where I want each sound source to be sent, plus a few details. I still hear nothing, and

RE: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-24 Thread Laurence Perkins
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Knecht > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 3:14 PM > To: Gentoo User > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 3:05 PM Wol wrote: > > > > On 23/03/2022 20:31, Mark Knecht wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 24 March 2022 09:43:49 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm about to try pavu[...] as you suggested. No dice. All that does is to allow me to set where I want each sound source to be sent, plus a few details. I still hear nothing, and pavumeter shows nothing being output. I still

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 17:20:53 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > [...] if it's KDE then generally that implies pulseaudio and users can > have different configurations. How could that happen? The second user is fresh from the oven, and I'm pretty sure I've never touched PulseAudio at all. (I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 22:14:17 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > I still have a bit of my gentoo-users folder going back a few years. > One of the older threads I saved was actually talking to Peter in > 2005. I built my first Gentoo machine in 2001, about a year after > Daniel started the distro.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 17:20:53 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:15 AM Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > > > > The machine is ~amd64 running Plasma. I log in via SDDM, but even if, > > instead, I log in first and then startx I still get no sound. I haven't > > touched ALSA;

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-23 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 22:14:17 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > Yeah, ain't that the truth! I'd likely be a Gentoo user if anyone > built and maintained a 'standard', stable distro, something delivered > in primarily binary files. [snip ...] There is this experiment making available binary

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-23 Thread ny6p01
If you have Gentoo, you have to resist the temptation to give in to despair. If you do, good things usually follow. Lee  On Mar 23, 2022 at 3:15 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 3:05 PM Wol wrote: > > On 23/03/2022 20:31, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Interesting. Having moved to

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 3:05 PM Wol wrote: > > On 23/03/2022 20:31, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Interesting. Having moved to Kubuntu it's just Kubuntu to me, and it's > > what I don't like about becoming primarily a Kubuntu user as you end > > up much more 'detached' from all this stuff. However my

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-23 Thread Wol
On 23/03/2022 20:31, Mark Knecht wrote: Interesting. Having moved to Kubuntu it's just Kubuntu to me, and it's what I don't like about becoming primarily a Kubuntu user as you end up much more 'detached' from all this stuff. However my important apps also 'just work' and vendors provide answers

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 1:19 PM Wol wrote: > > On 23/03/2022 17:20, Mark Knecht wrote: > > So by 'Plasma' you imply KDE to me. Am I correct in that? > > Yes and no ... > > To a rough approximation, KDE is Qt4. Plasma is Qt5. > > I don't really get it myself. > > Cheers, > Wol Interesting. Having

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-23 Thread Wol
On 23/03/2022 17:20, Mark Knecht wrote: So by 'Plasma' you imply KDE to me. Am I correct in that? Yes and no ... To a rough approximation, KDE is Qt4. Plasma is Qt5. I don't really get it myself. Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:20 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:15 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > The machine is ~amd64 running Plasma. I log in via SDDM, but even if, > > instead, > > I log in first and then startx I still get no sound. I haven't touched ALSA; > > it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:15 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The machine is ~amd64 running Plasma. I log in via SDDM, but even if, instead, > I log in first and then startx I still get no sound. I haven't touched ALSA; > it's whatever Plasma wanted to support its audio process. > So by 'Plasma'

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 17:00:44 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 9:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The USB sound dongle on this workstation has stopped working, but only for > > me. The system settings Audio setup window detects it but no sound is > > heard (I nearly said

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 9:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > The USB sound dongle on this workstation has stopped working, but only for me. > The system settings Audio setup window detects it but no sound is heard (I > nearly said none appears :) . It worked a week ago, and it still