Re: [trinity-users] no sound in Jessie with r14 from xcer.cz

On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 06:06:22 -0400 Felix Miata wrote:

> Last Debian I installed on any of my own systems was Etch, until Friday, when > I did a network minimal, then added TDE. In a broad sense, only one thing > bothers me at this point, no sound. In openSUSE we have YaST2 for such things > as sound configuration, but in Jessie/TDE I haven't found anything that > helps. Trying to use Synaptic to figure it out isn't working, because its > scroller is worthless - it has no buttons to scroll only a line at atime, and > the scrollbar hopelessly overshoots trying to drag or click. TCC's Sound & > Multimedia isn't producing any sound or any clues as to why not. SMplayer > plays video but without sound. Is there some TDE tool not yet installed that > can configure sound, or do I need some as yet undiscovered Debian tool to > make sound work? https://wiki.debian.org/ALSA didn't seem to help at all. :-(

Invoke alsamixer from the command line and check to make sure that nothing's muted and it's pointing at the right soundcard--don't ask me why, but ALSA sometimes sets everything up muted, and it isn't unusual for an HD audio device to register as *two* devices, only one of which works.