5 Aug
2016
5 Aug
'16
12:54 a.m.
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
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