On Tuesday 03 July 2018 05:24:18 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Dienstag, 3. Juli 2018 schrieb Kate Draven:
On Monday 02 July 2018 18:30:34 Mike Bird wrote:
On Mon July 2 2018 07:36:36 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 02 July 2018 09:01:14 Mike Bird wrote:
On Mon July 2 2018 05:34:50 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 02 July 2018 07:48:29 Mike Bird wrote: > > ls -l /etc/*.d/S*alsa* > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Oct 5 > 2015 /etc/rcS.d/S21alsa-utils -> ../init.d/alsa-utils
Hi Gene,
That's good. There's a good chance Kate's suggestion of checking the controls in kmix will solve your problem.
--Mike
BTDT enough times to pay for the t-shirt. Tain't there.
OK, so we know ALSA is set to start automatically. I don't think we know yet that it is working as system sounds can happen without ALSA.
(1) Please use speaker-test before login to determine whether ALSA works before login. Make a note of which speakers it finds. Can you hear them all? ctrl-C to stop it when you get bored.
And just how do I accomplish that when no one is logged in? I've tried /path/to/aplay /path/to/file in /etc/rc.local and its as if its ignored. There are other things in rc.local that do get done. Not there now as I took it out when it didn't work.
(2) What precisely tain't there? Kmix? Some slider you were expecting?
kmix is fine, lives on the dock area.
(3) In Control Center / Sound & Multimedia / Sound System is it enabled on the General tab?
(4) ... and is networked sound enable? (Easier if it is not.)
Not now, was though.
(5) ... and which Audio Device is selected on the Hardware tab?
The mobo audio, I took a pretty good SBLive out to make pci slot room for something else years ago. A firewire card IIRC.
BTW, a possible kludge for your situation might be to disable "restore volumes on login" in kmix / settings / configure kmix.
--Mike
I won't slap down on a bible, but I faintly recall setting that option way back when. And it had no effect, but I think its still on. Due to poor gain in my speakers, most of kmix has been wide open for years.
-- Cheers, Gene Heskett
Ok there's a clue. Grab some headphones and see it there's any sound. Running speakers at max can blow their voice coils.
There is not enough power to blow the coils of the internal speekers :-)
But you might want to check the settings with "alsamixer" or "amixer", maybe the speekers are set to "mute" (and kmixer cnnot unmute them).
BTDT, everythings fine.
Nik
Kate
PS we should change the title of this thread to "The Sound of Silence"
:)