12 Jul
2015
12 Jul
'15
6:24 p.m.
On Sunday 12 July 2015 18:23:29 Felix Miata wrote:
E. Liddell composed on 2015-07-12 06:57 (UTC-0400):
Someone, please - I am hopeless on sound technology. What does "line" tout
court mean?
Lisi
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 06:06:22 -0400 Felix Miata
wrote:
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 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. 
