On Monday 19 October 2015 22:54:44 Glenn English wrote: > On 10/19/2015 03:39 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Since you appear to have Pulse Audio, > > I didn't know I did :-) > > why not use pavucontrol? > > It asked me to have my sysadmin install pavucontrol. So I did When I ran > it, and it said: > > "Connection to PulseAudio failed..." > > So maybe I really don't have PA? Or have I not configured something > properly? > > Since I didn't think PA was on this machine, I haven't done any audio > configuration, alsa or Pulse.
Oh dear, it did say "unable to connect". My mistake. > ghe@sbox:~... alsamixer > ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) * **Pulse Audio***: Unable to connect: > Connection refused > > cannot open mixer: Connection refused > ghe@sbox:~... sudo alsamixer > ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) ***Pulse Audio***: Unable to connect: > Connection refused I almost hardly dare say it, it is barely better than saying s*****d, but when I have a problem with sound, I install Pulse Audio, install pavucontrol, and have a look at what it says. You do not have to be a sound engineer to understand it. I can rarely make head or tails of alsamixer. Lisi
