On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 01:54:34 +0300 Alex Moonshine <moonsh...@openmailbox.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:12:21 -0600 > Glenn English <g...@slsware.net> wrote: > > > On 10/19/2015 04:04 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > 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'll look into installing PulseAudio. pavucontrol did try to look > > nicer that the curses alsamixer. > > > > I can rarely make head or tails of alsamixer. > > > > I'm having a hard time just getting it to beep at me. > > > > I take the risk of provoking some PA-hatemail, but I > usually can't be bothered to configure alsa at all. It never works out > of the box for me on Debian (maybe it's my Creative Audigy SE that it > doesn't like), and even when I can make it, dmix > still refuses to work, making it so that only one application can play > sound at a time. > yep. i have that problem. sound on linux is still kind of annoying. Brian
