Today, for the first time in many weeks, my computer, running Jessie, started to have sound. It must have something to do with last night install of updates of .deb packages. But there are problems. I have no software control over the volume. Only way to turn done the volume is to turn anti-clockwist the physical knob on the loud speaker box. And, the audio mixer, which has been installed during the many weeks, has developed a new curious symptom: Instead of doing nothing, it now displays a message that GStreamer was unable to find any sound devices. Of course there are working sound devices, its just that Jessie sound software is not yet working. I'd welcome tips on how to make it fully functional faster than just waiting for the full release of Jessie
Note: some of you may remember my asking for help getting my sound to work. I got some help. I got help. I spent hours trying different things and suddenly it started working, but a few hours later, it stopped working again. I don't understand software sound. I think loading and removing various packages with various conflicting bugs somehow made it work for awhile, and decided to let it lie fallow. I noticed that there are two packages on the Xfce4 desktop that I don't believe were there the last time I paid attention to computer sound: Ex Falso and Quod Libet. I have never felt the need for computer mediated music, so that fact that there is broken sound now, rather than no sound might be related to these packages. Anyway, it would be nice to have fully functional sound. My compute is a HP Pentium desktop several years old, nothing special, but it is the best computer I have ever had, so I expect to be keeping it thru the life of Jessie, and beyond. For now, I can, with adequate guidance, do testing of the new sound for today. Is there anything of interest to the developers who are working the sound system issues? The GStreamer message goes on to suggest: Some sound system specific GStreamer packages may be missing. It may also be a permissions problem. What is the package set that should be installed in Jessie? Maybe now is a good time to find out. Where should I look? Cheers. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150201020304.ga25...@big.lan.gnu
