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