On Sunday 12 July 2015 18:23:29 Felix Miata wrote:
E. Liddell composed on 2015-07-12 06:57 (UTC-0400):
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.
There must be something that didn't get installed.
openSUSE 13.2/KDE4 works right out of the box: http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/alsamixer-os132-gx780.png
Same machine booted Jessie/R14: http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/alsamixer-jessie-gx780.png
I don't see any material difference. Any other ideas (besides PA)?
"Line" is muted on Jessie. Try unmuting it. But Baron warns that soemthing else may then mute itself!
Lisi