On Friday, September 13, 2013 10:00:03 AM UTC-4, Lisi Reisz wrote: > The problem has arisen since I upgraded. Sound was fine in Squeeze. > > > > Now, when I run alsamixergui: > > > > lisi@Tux-II:~$ alsamixergui > > > > I get an error box saying: > > > > alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: invalid argument > > > > No pulseaudia is installed. > > > > I get the same problem on a fresh install of Wheezy on my husband's box. > > > > on-board sound on my box: chipset Intel Z77 Express chipset > > > > root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# lshw | grep snd > > configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0 > > > > I have no idea where to look. I have googled the error message, and get a > > lot of hits. It is obviously a common error, but I could see no solutions > > that seemed to fit my situation. Probably couldn't see the wood for the > > trees. :-( > > > > Two people had succeeded by purging everything Alsa related and installing > > Alsa from upstream, though one of them had to run snddevices after every > > boot. Hardly satisfactory, especially on my husband's box. > > > > Any suggestions, please? Ought I to purge and install from upstream? In > > general, I prefer to stick to Debian versions. > > > > Thanks for any help, > > Lisi > > > > > > -- > > 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/201309131458.27255.lisi.re...@gmail.com
I ran into an alsa issue awhile back and solved it by altering the conf file. May or may not be of any help. I wrote it up here http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=409 -- 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/f3d723d2-19db-41c6-917e-d807a9338...@googlegroups.com