On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:42 PM, songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote:
> install paman and see what it says about sources > and sinks. It says a lot, but I'm not sure what it all means. Would screenshots help? But as best I can tell, things are OK there. All the blanks are filled in, and the sinks say two things: #2 is about Hammerfall. I don't see anything about Intel, but #1 is 'Built-in Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958)'. My guess is that's the mobo chip. There are four sources listed. Two are that Built-in something and the last two are the Hammerfall. I found the PA Volume Meter, and it bounces along with Audacity's meters. I assume that means alsa is working, right? I found a window labeled Volume Control. It was set to zero. I don't understand how the meters were bouncing with that at zero, but I brought it up. Still nothing. In Audacity, there's a drop-down to select the card/chip. Set to defaults or HDA Intel, both Audacity and the PA meters bounce. Here's something interesting: I logged into a buster laptop across the room (with no recent updates) and ran alsamixer. It's card is HDA Intel PCH, and its chip is Realtek ALC3235. Not PulseAudio. I scp'ed a piece of audio to it and opened it in Audacity. Sound works over there. There seems to be no way to find PA's version (no mention of a version option in the man page or in -h). logs: dpkg.log:2018-02-23 11:54:58 configure gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.12.4-1+b1 <none> dpkg.log:2018-02-23 11:54:58 status unpacked gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.12.4-1+b1 dpkg.log:2018-02-23 11:54:58 status half-configured gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.12.4-1+b1 dpkg.log:2018-02-23 11:54:58 status installed gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.12.4-1+b1 syslog:Feb 23 09:40:31 sbox dbus-daemon[662]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1' unit='rtkit-daemon.service' requested by ':1.26' (uid=1000 pid=1398 comm="/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no ") syslog:Feb 23 12:15:16 sbox dbus-daemon[680]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1' unit='rtkit-daemon.service' requested by ':1.24' (uid=1000 pid=1306 comm="/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no ") That's not everything, but it's everything I think is relevant. There were a few updates and reboots today. And can't find it again, but I could swear I saw a PA update... -- Glenn English
