Charlie <aries...@skymesh.com.au> writes:
[...] > Florian Kulzer helped me to debug this a couple of years ago. Very > comprehensive and excellent run through, but this might be all you need: > > amixer set Master unmute That one seems to have went off without a hitch > amixer set PCM unmute amixer set PCM unmute amixer: Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0 Then went to root and tried again: sudo amixer set PCM unmute No protocol specified xcb_connection_has_error() returned true Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined penum Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Mono: Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-34.50dB] [on] It appears the left and right are `on' but yet I cannot hear any sounds. At least I am not able to make a sound with something like: mplayer /anex2/music/W.P.A._CaseyBillWelden.wav MPlayer SVN-r33713-4.6.1 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing /anex2/music/W.P.A._CaseyBillWelden.wav. Audio only file format detected. Load subtitles in /anex2/music/ ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1411.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 176400->176400) Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM) ========================================================================== AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Video: no video Starting playback... A: 4.1 (04.1) of 194.0 (03:14.0) 0.1% And the numbers spin by but no sound. Yes, I do have speakers connected... hehe. And I hear noise at the speakers when I pull the plug in and out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aa8m59h9....@newsguy.com