On 3/24/15, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For the avoidance of doubt, pavucontrol (PulseAudioVolUme control) will not > > work if PulseAudio is not installed. > > (Referring back to a recent thread.) > > With ALSA you want alsamixer or alsamixergui.
Perhaps I was not precise enough in saying.... * it works! * * in my case! * * my experience is just an example! * I believe the following is *the* precise comment that changed my current sound manipulation habits AND *slightly* furthered my understanding of the whole thing's interoperability. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/01/msg00543.html Ric said, "In a nut shell, alsa is the basement for sound. Pulse sits on top and directs input/output to multiple sound decices (sic)." To which from THIS side of the screen that day I then snidely snarked, "Oh, REALLLLLY?!* With so much still to learn, I didn't think I had ALSA installed. Turned out what he did know'd was..... I did so, too, have ALSA installed on my system else pavucontrol would (apparently) not have worked. Found out fairly easily back then that ALSA was, yes, in my system, but I sure struggled to duplicate the same effort today. It's there. Best as I can tell, ALSA's functionality was initially installed at least in part as packages libasound2-data and libasound2. Xfce4 gets the k/t for that default action occurring as part of its own install (this past week again). As for pavucontrol dependencies, that's just the nature of the beast that is many packages we install. Thankfully our systems are "intelligent" enough these days to alert us to dependency needs during installs. We can then make a final, educated executive decision yes or no regarding installs based on the additional package dependency feedback our package managers provide during installations. Just for kicks before sending this off, I checked /var/log/apt/term.log. My latest *fresh* pavucontrol install (~three days ago) drug these in: libspeexdsp1 libasound2-plugins libfftw3-single3 libgtkmm-3.0-1 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulsedsp libwebrtc-audio-processing-0 pavucontrol pulseaudio-utils pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-x11 rtkit Again... *it works!* Turns out * with ALSA as a base! * (according to Ric who accordingly turned out to be <s>right</s> correct that pavucontrol wasn't going to work without ALSA as a base <tm?!>) When this successful avenue of gaining sound presented itself a few months ago, I'd been fighting for WEEKS trying to have ANY sound while going the whole suggested ALSA only route. Ric's PulseAudio Volume Control comment was the one that INSTANTLY solved my private issue when ALSA controls had been failing repeatedly and miserably until his comment appeared..... That's why it was a no-brainer it would be *safe* to pose pavucontrol as a potential alternative *_CHOICE_* for any conversation that includes the words "- No Sound". :) Cindy ;) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape(d sewing machine) * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cao1p-kbnwbsd+epitazssty68j5f5rbbdaf0uosm9cabzyt...@mail.gmail.com