FWIW, after installing several different mixer/controller widgets, I finally found one that allowed me to un-mute the output.
(Top-post seems most appropriate to me here, since my "solution" doesn't seem to fit naturally into the flow of the thread. My apologies if I step on toes about top posting.) On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: >> >>> Joel Rees wrote: >>> > After the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy, sound doesn't work. >>> >>> Sound can be very frustrating. I have had my own share of problems >>> with it lately. >>> >> >> Hmm. Did I blog about it last time? I should check. But there are some >> changes this time, what with the audio group coming into play. I think I >> have that taken care of. >> >> >>> > I looked through the sound faqs and discover that key elements of my >>> sound >>> > infrastructure are missing. So I started to add them using synaptic, >>> but it >>> > tells me the packages are not authenticated. >>> > >>> > Are we still in the middle of shifting from non-authenticated packages >>> to >>> > authenticated packages, or are the audio packages just like this? >>> >>> No. Everything is fine. Therefore you have a problem on your end. >>> >> >> Maybe I should set LANG to en_US.UTF-8 to be sure I'm not missing >> something. >> >> >>> Verify that you have "wheezy" not "testing" in your /etc/apt/sources.list >>> file. >>> >> >> Checked that. That's where I started on the upgrade. >> >> >>> Did you remember to 'apt-get update'? >>> >> >> Always do, I'm pretty sure the upgrade would not have proceeded without >> it. >> >> >>> What is the output of: >>> >>> apt-cache policy debian-archive-keyring >>> >> >> Hand copying since that's faster than mailing it to myself from the other >> machine: >> >> ------------------------- >> debian-archive-keyring: >> Installed: 2012.4 >> Candidate: 2012.4 >> Version table: >> *** 2012.4 0 >> 500 ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 >> Packages >> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status >> ------------------------- >> >> April 2012? >> >> Pick one of the packages that you are trying to install. Say it is >>> called "foo". What is the output of 'apt-cache policy foo'? >>> >>> Bob >>> >> >> I think this is the one I tried to install: >> >> ----------------------- >> alsa-player-alsa: >> Installed: (none) >> Candidate: 0.99.80-5.1 >> Version table: >> 0.99.80-5.1 0 >> 500 ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages >> ----------------------- >> >> Hmm. I think I'll run synaptic with LANG set to English now. >> > > No errors this time. Maybe there were mirrors synchronization issues. > > -- > Joel Rees > -- -- Joel Rees
