Am Dienstag, 8. April 2014 schrieb Lisi Reisz:
I have a client whose sound has suddenly died, after running well since the system was installed. (Six months?? A bit more?) The obvious explanations are user error (clicked something without realising) or dead hardware.
She is running Debian Wheezy with TDE 3.5.13.2 on an oldish Dell laptop. Since I haven't got the laptop here, I haven't got its specs. I cannot have the laptop to work on for the moment, since she is using it a lot for now.
All suggestions or explanations welcomed, Lisi
I remember a problem with kmixer and alsa that sounds like it. Symtom was, that kmixer did modify "maste" but "pcm"was 0%, thus no sound. The workaround was setting "pcm" to 100% (or what ever is suitable) using alsamixer from console. Sometimes doing this once solved the problem, sometimes I had to put amixer <someparameter> in rc.local.
An other one were the "enable"-switches. kmixer did not set the pcm on option. Doing that once in alsamixer solved the issue.
nik