Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-19 Thread Brian
On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 12:05:15 +, Curt wrote: > On 2016-09-17, deloptes wrote: > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > >> He keeps saying that he is using Jessie.  Why do you think he is using > >> Ubuntu? > > Sorry I seem to have misread something. > > > > Easy to do in these protracted, tangential, ni

Re: Sound on Jessie

2016-09-18 Thread Brian
On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 12:55:13 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 18 September 2016 11:13:03 Brian wrote: > > > Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-09-17 11:56 (UTC+0100): > > > >Alan McConnell wrote: > > > >>Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! > > > > > > > >Wheezy is LTS (though ad

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-18 Thread Alan McConnell
- Original Message - From: "Lisi Reisz" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 5:56:13 PM Subject: Re: Sound on jessie On Saturday 17 September 2016 14:43:04 Alan McConnell wrote: > Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!!

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-18 Thread Curt
On 2016-09-17, deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> He keeps saying that he is using Jessie.  Why do you think he is using >> Ubuntu? > Sorry I seem to have misread something. > Easy to do in these protracted, tangential, niggling threads that devolve into acrimony and invidiousness before ex

Re: Sound on Jessie

2016-09-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 18 September 2016 11:13:03 Brian wrote: > > Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-09-17 11:56 (UTC+0100): > > >Alan McConnell wrote: > > >>Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! > > > > > >Wheezy is LTS (though admittedly more successfully for servers), so if > > >everything Just W

Re: Sound on Jessie

2016-09-18 Thread Brian
On Sat 17 Sep 2016 at 20:10:15 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-09-17 11:56 (UTC+0100): > > >Alan McConnell wrote: > > >>Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! > > >Wheezy is LTS (though admittedly more successfully for servers), so if > >everything Just

Re: Sound on Jessie

2016-09-17 Thread Felix Miata
Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-09-17 11:56 (UTC+0100): Alan McConnell wrote: Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! Wheezy is LTS (though admittedly more successfully for servers), so if everything Just Worked, and you liked it, why did you change? There are indeed valid rea

Re: Sound on Jessie

2016-09-17 Thread Felix Miata
Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-09-17 11:56 (UTC+0100): Alan McConnell wrote: Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! Wheezy is LTS (though admittedly more successfully for servers), so if everything Just Worked, and you liked it, why did you change? There are indeed valid rea

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread deloptes
Alan McConnell wrote: > 0 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH > HDA Intel PCH at 0xdf32 irq 142 > 1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia > HDA NVidia at 0xdf08 irq 17 > > I have no idea what the above means.  Presumably one or both are > functional. So which one is your pre

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread deloptes
Lisi Reisz wrote: > He keeps saying that he is using Jessie.  Why do you think he is using > Ubuntu? Sorry I seem to have misread something.

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 17 September 2016 21:58:55 Alan McConnell wrote: > I tried to install alsa.  No result -- I think it is already installed. By what method did you try and what reason have you to think that it is already installed? (I am troubleshooting, not carping.) Lisi

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 17 September 2016 17:17:55 deloptes wrote: > Now that we know Alan is using Ubuntu, he could even try ubuntu live in > former or current version to compare. He keeps saying that he is using Jessie. Why do you think he is using Ubuntu? Lisi

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 17 September 2016 14:43:04 Alan McConnell wrote: > Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! Wheezy is LTS (though admittedly more successfully for servers), so if everything Just Worked, and you liked it, why did you change? There are indeed valid reasons, but what is

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 17 September 2016 14:03:36 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, September 17, 2016 03:56:20 AM Joe wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 08:57:12 +0200 > > > > deloptes wrote: > > > Joe we are not doing advertisements for this or that distro. > > > > 'Advertisement'? I'm recommending some

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread Alan McConnell
- Original Message - From: "Joe" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 3:47:10 PM Subject: Re: Sound on jessie On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 12:47:23 -0400 (EDT) Alan McConnell wrote: > > This suggests to me, and I hope to my readers he

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread Joe
On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 12:47:23 -0400 (EDT) Alan McConnell wrote: > > This suggests to me, and I hope to my readers here, that > there is something wrong with the way alsa works, or doesn't work, > here. I can't imagine what the difficulty is, since the cogent > suggestions that have be

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread Felix Miata
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-09-17 09:43 (UTC-0400): Alan, who is pleased at least to be able to get on line from his jessie install Those who helped, and those who use Google, deserve an update to the original thread explaining that you solved the problem, and as best you can, how you di

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread Alan McConnell
- Original Message - From: "deloptes" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 12:17:55 PM Subject: Re: Sound on jessie Alan McConnell wrote: > > > - Original Message - > From: "Anthony Baldwin" > To: debian-use

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread deloptes
Alan McConnell wrote: > > > - Original Message - > From: "Anthony Baldwin" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 7:56:48 AM > Subject: Re: Sound on jessie > > > I was having a similar problem just last wee

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/17/2016 09:43 AM, Alan McConnell wrote: - Original Message - From: "Anthony Baldwin" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 7:56:48 AM Subject: Re: Sound on jessie I was having a similar problem just last week after an update>safe up

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread Alan McConnell
- Original Message - From: "Anthony Baldwin" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 7:56:48 AM Subject: Re: Sound on jessie I was having a similar problem just last week after an update>safe upgrade.. After scratching my head for several da

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, September 17, 2016 03:56:20 AM Joe wrote: > On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 08:57:12 +0200 > > deloptes wrote: > > Joe we are not doing advertisements for this or that distro. > > 'Advertisement'? I'm recommending something I've found to be a useful > troubleshooting tool, over many years. It i

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 09/17/2016 02:57 AM, deloptes wrote: Joe wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:44:09 -0400 (EDT) Alan McConnell wrote: For some reason, my sound doesn't work on my new machine with its present jessie install. It worked on my old machine(which had jessie) and it works fine here on Windoze(I use y

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread Joe
On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 08:57:12 +0200 deloptes wrote: > > > > Joe we are not doing advertisements for this or that distro. 'Advertisement'? I'm recommending something I've found to be a useful troubleshooting tool, over many years. It is of no use as a permanent installation, as it cannot be u

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
First try which amixer and if that isn't found, download alsa-utils. Next sudo -H amixer set Master 85%;alsactl store On Sat, 17 Sep 2016, deloptes wrote: Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 02:57:12 From: deloptes To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sound on jessie Resent-Date: Sat, 1

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-16 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:44:09 -0400 (EDT) > Alan McConnell wrote: > >> For some reason, my sound doesn't work on my new machine with its >> present jessie install. It worked on my old machine(which had >> jessie) and it works fine here on Windoze(I use youtube to play old >> Bernie

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-16 Thread Joe
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:44:09 -0400 (EDT) Alan McConnell wrote: > For some reason, my sound doesn't work on my new machine with its > present jessie install. It worked on my old machine(which had > jessie) and it works fine here on Windoze(I use youtube to play old > Bernie Sanders' speeches, or

Re: Sound on jessie

2016-09-16 Thread steef
hi alan, install synaptic if you haven't allready done so. do 'sudo synaptic' and search for 'alsa' and install (as root) alsa-base alsa-tools the alsa-toolsgui and the aslsamixergui. this last package give you some useful possibilities. and in my humble opimion, please get rid of pulse-audi