Re: Re: [trinity-users] today's immature bothersome question - tde-users

2 Jul 2018

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  On Mon July 2 2018 03:31:56 Gene Heskett wrote:
  Yes, I can hear system noises before I login.
Login and they become muted
 and firefox is silent, until I stop whatever FF is playing and issue the
 alsoctl restore command, which reports a can't do that, system is busy,
 but when I restart FF playing whatever, it then works till the next
 reboot.  
 System sounds before login may be happening without ALSA so at the
 moment I'm not sure whether ALSA is working before login.

 You could try speaker-test (ALSA white noise generator) to see if
 ALSA is working before login (or aplay if you have something playable).

 Let's check that ALSA is set to start automatically.  Do you have

   ls -l /etc/*.d/S*alsa*

 You should have a link called something like /etc/rcS.d/S16alsa-utils
 to /etc/init.d/alsa-utils.

 --Mike

 --------------------------------------------------------------------- You should
also try turning up all the vols. 
I have a audigy sound blaster. I can play amarok (front) with one vol, but 
smplayer uses another (center). I spent 10 mins trying to figure out why 
amarok played but smplayer didn't until I decided to play with the kmix 
settings.

Also install all the alsa related controls. In case there's a mute in there.

Good luck,

Kate