On Thursday 04 August 2016 22:43:23 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote on 08/04/16 18:27: > > On Thursday 04 August 2016 17:01:01 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Which sound devices are shown by alsamixer? (See the text on the top > >> left and, maybe, use F2 and F6 keys.) > > > > Card: PulseAudio > > Chip: PulseAudio > > > > F6 > > default > > 0 HDA Intel PCH > > 1 HDA NVidia > > enter device name > > Do you get sound if you select 0 or 1 ? > > > F2 > > /proc/asound/version > > /proc/asound/cards > > /proc/asound/devices > > /proc/asound/oss/devices > > /proc/asound/timers > > /proc/asound/pcm > > > >> Is there a file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf? > > > > No > > On a HP Probook without additional discrete GPU I had to set > > options snd_hda_intel index=1 > > in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf in order to get the speakers to work. > > >> What is the output of > >> > >> lsmod | grep snd > > > > You missed this in my original post: > > Yes, sorry. > > > peter@Nyx-II:~/Music$ lsmod | grep snd > > snd_hda_codec_realtek 81920 1 > > snd_hda_codec_generic 73728 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek > > snd_hda_codec_hdmi 53248 1 > > snd_hda_intel 36864 7 > > snd_hda_codec 131072 4 > > snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_in > >tel snd_hda_core 69632 5 > > snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_co > >dec,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 16384 1 snd_hda_codec > > snd_pcm 102400 4 > > snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_core > > snd_timer 32768 1 snd_pcm > > snd 86016 22 > > snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_ > >hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel soundcore 16384 > > 1 snd > > peter@Nyx-II:~/Music$ > > Which kernel drivers are in use for the audio devices according to the > output of lspci -v > ? > Does the output of dmesg reveal something regarding the sound devices? > > > Thank you for the help, Jörg-Volker! :-) > > Lisi > > You're welcome. > > Regards, > jvp.
I worked over what we had been doing. I also added $USER to pulse and pulse-access groups. Suddenly it is consistently working, instaed of jts that once and temporarily. Don't ask me which bit worked, but for now it works! Thank you for your help. Lisi
