* Andoru <aekk...@gmail.com> [2016-02-16 01:27 +0200]: > > Sometimes pulseaudio is the cause..... > > $ apt-cache policy pulseaudio > pulseaudio: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 7.1-2 > Version table: > 7.1-2 500 > 500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
What tells: dpkg -l | egrep "(alsa|libaso)" > > > According to http://alsa.opensrc.org/DmixPlugin you don't need to setup > > dmix for analogue output. Dmix is enabled by default for soundcards which > > don't support hardware mixing. You still need to set it up for digital > > outputs. > > If I don't set up dmix in the config file, it doesn't work either way. > > > A better source for help is us...@lists.debian.org as this was discussed > > multiple times in the past. > > Did they disable search engine indexing on those lists? I wasn't able to > find much useful info for ALSA and this specific issue while searching. > Also no posts over on those mailing lists turned up... Just ask on those lists ;-) And please ask your searchengine on how to use emailin mailing lists and learnwhat an email thread is. > > A good start is just to throw away all the asoud.conf and .asoundrc > > stuff. It overconstrains your system. The latest alsa is very tough and > > should do what you need. > > If I do that, I get no sound through the analog jack output. What probably > happens is that the HDMI is used for sound output instead... Somebody at > the ALSA user mailing list suggested me to use config #2 (from my first > message in this bug report) just to set the default soundcard without > setting dmix, but it didn't work... Just do as user: $ mv $HOME/.asoundrc $HOME/.asoundrc.save $ cat <<EOF > $HOME/.asoundrc defaults.pcm.!card PCH defaults.ctl.!card PCH EOF As root: # service alsa-utils restart Elimar -- Excellent day for drinking heavily. Spike the office water cooler;-)