On Thursday 04 August 2016 16:34:57 Joe wrote:
On 08/04/2016 08:56 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 04 August 2016 02:06:27 Joe wrote:
I've had some sound problems in MX-15 with VLC and Trinity. The issue is solved... sort of.
This is a link to the discussion:
http://forum.mepiscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?f=100&t=40197
The short version is: After I installed KDE Plasma Desktop, the problems cleared up. Recently, they started again. If I log out of TDE, log into Plasma Desktop, log out of Plasma, then back into TDE, I have sound again in VLC.
Maybe this is a good time to add to the confusion. Something in the environment as tdm is starting shuts off the sound, and it is 100% repeatable here, running R14.0.4. And despite my best efforts at adding the fix it command to stuff that either runs as root by init, (rcS) or as me when I log in, sound is deader than a nail until I find a terminal and type in the fix it: alsactl restore.
This has existed as a bootup problem for at least a year. I hear the big thump in the speakers as the driver is loaded way back in the text only portion of the reboot, which I see because I am an anacronism and always have a no-splash on the kernel's load line in grub.conf. That thump tells me the sound should work, so what is it in the tdm load time frame that mutes it?
Whatever it should be found & killed. With no regrets. SSS theory.
Thanks.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Joe, please don't put your reply below anybody's sig disconnecter. You did, and that means I have to copy & paste from your message to this one. The sig disconnect is a newline,dash,dash,space,newline and no email agent I know of fails to honor it unless its some winders thing.
Now I'll copy and paste:
Gene,
I'm cross-posting your reply to my thread in the MX-15 Modified forum so they will know that this is not exclusively a Trinity on MX-15 problem.
Thanks, -Joe
I never for a millsecond thought it was an MX-15 problem. I've had an aftermarket card it did it to, and it does it to the motherboard audio system on this now elderly Asus motherboard. Post away, as I see no reason to launch a machine code trace on your MX-15, whatever that is.
As for trinity, ISTR I also had problems with kde doing the same thing before I jerked it out by its hair and put trinity in. And I have lost a lot less blood annually with trinity than I have with kde for the last 6 or 7 years. I like stability.
Cheers, Gene Heskett