Re: Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-20 Thread Martin G. McCormick
T.J. Duchene writes: Martin, I'm sorry you had problems with my suggestion. Most often, these problems have to be handled by trial and error. I'm afraid I can only offer advice based on my own experience and the fact you mentioned you were using Pulseaudio. I assumed you had it already

Re: Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-20 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Chris Bannister writes: I reckon the guys on the 'linux-audio-user' (http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user) mailing list would be the ideal place for help with this. Probably so. I've exhausted all the obvious solutions now. Thank you. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-19 Thread Martin G. McCormick
T.J. Duchene writes: Pulseaudio has had a long history of being poorly handling certain audio chipset drivers, I'm afraid. You may be able to solve your problem by adjusting the the driver parameters in the file: /etc/pulse/default.pa. The more I dig in to this, the less I know. Back

Re: Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 06:30:13AM -0500, Martin G. McCormick wrote: T.J. Duchene writes: Pulseaudio has had a long history of being poorly handling certain audio chipset drivers, I'm afraid. You may be able to solve your problem by adjusting the the driver parameters in the file:

re: Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-19 Thread T.J. Duchene
Martin, I'm sorry you had problems with my suggestion. Most often, these problems have to be handled by trial and error. I'm afraid I can only offer advice based on my own experience and the fact you mentioned you were using Pulseaudio. I assumed you had it already installed and was using it.

Re: Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-18 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:32:27 -0500 Martin G. McCormick mar...@server1.shellworld.net wrote: Thanks for any constructive ideas. Did you try with another kernel? Kind regards -- http://markorandjelovic.hopto.org One should not be afraid of humans. Well, I am not afraid of humans, but of what

Re: Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-18 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Marko Randjelovic writes: Did you try with another kernel? Well, indirectly. As I mentioned, the system has always exhibited this behavior slightly for several years through a number of kernels. The biggest change, though, was when I changed out the conventional 10 GB hard drive for a

Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-18 Thread T.J. Duchene
Good morning, Martin! Before I can make suggestions, I need to know if you are using a daemon such as Jack or PulseAudio or if you are using ALSA directly. Thanks, T.J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Jack: was Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:40:56 -0500 T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: Good morning, Martin! Before I can make suggestions, I need to know if you are using a daemon such as Jack or PulseAudio or if you are using ALSA directly. T.J (and anyone else), I really want to use Jack, but

Re: Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-18 Thread Martin G. McCormick
T.J. Duchene writes: Good morning, Martin! Before I can make suggestions, I need to know if you are using a daemon such as Jack or PulseAudio or if you are using ALSA directly. Thanks, I am using pulseaudio and alsa. Normally, if I am listening to something it is through mplayer but

Re: Jack: was Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-18 Thread Joel Roth
Steve Litt wrote: I really want to use Jack, but every time I've tried, I failed miserably and gotten no sound. Is there some special mindset you need when installing/configuring Jack, and if so, where can I find out about it? http://jackaudio.org/ http://jackaudio.org/faq/

Re: Jack: was Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-18 Thread Peter Nieman
On 18/09/14 17:09, Steve Litt wrote: I really want to use Jack, but every time I've tried, I failed miserably and gotten no sound. Is there some special mindset you need when installing/configuring Jack, and if so, where can I find out about it? There's a graphical frontend called qjackctl

Re: Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-18 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 06:14:00 -0500 Martin G. McCormick mar...@server1.shellworld.net wrote: Marko Randjelovic writes: Did you try with another kernel? Well, indirectly. As I mentioned, the system has always exhibited this behavior slightly for several years through a number of

Re: Jack: was Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 18/09/14 at 11:09am, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:40:56 -0500 T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: Good morning, Martin! Before I can make suggestions, I need to know if you are using a daemon such as Jack or PulseAudio or if you are using ALSA directly. T.J

Re: Jack: was Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-18 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 08:29:26PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: On 18/09/14 at 11:09am, Steve Litt wrote: I really want to use Jack, but every time I've tried, I failed miserably and gotten no sound. Is there some special mindset you need when installing/configuring Jack, and if so,

Re: Jack: was Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 19:15:29 +0200 Peter Nieman gmane-a...@t-online.de wrote: On 18/09/14 17:09, Steve Litt wrote: I really want to use Jack, but every time I've tried, I failed miserably and gotten no sound. Is there some special mindset you need when installing/configuring Jack, and if

Skype + Linux? was Jack: was Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 20:29:26 +0200 Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/09/14 at 11:09am, Steve Litt wrote: My understanding of Jack (and please correct me if I'm wrong), is that it's like being able to patchcord together all sorts of software sound processor boxes, in

Re: Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-18 Thread T.J. Duchene
Pulseaudio has had a long history of being poorly handling certain audio chipset drivers, I'm afraid. You may be able to solve your problem by adjusting the the driver parameters in the file: /etc/pulse/default.pa. You will need to have administrator permission to do this. Be sure to make a backup

Re: Skype + Linux? was Jack: was Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-18 Thread Brian
On Thu 18 Sep 2014 at 17:19:01 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 20:29:26 +0200 Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, jack compliant applications can be routed from/to every where. Non compliant apps can also be routed with little tweaking (eg. flashplayer,

Re: Skype + Linux? was Jack: was Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 18/09/14 at 05:19pm, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 20:29:26 +0200 Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/09/14 at 11:09am, Steve Litt wrote: My understanding of Jack (and please correct me if I'm wrong), is that it's like being able to patchcord together

Slight New Sound Problem

2014-09-17 Thread Martin G. McCormick
This is an older Dell system whose on-board sound chip is a CS4237 and it has worked well until I replaced the boot drive with a flash drive. This makes the system faster but audio now has a problem that I would sure like to correct as it is annoying to say the least. I began