----- Original Message ----- From: "deloptes" <delop...@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 12:17:55 PM Subject: Re: Sound on jessie
Alan McConnell wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anthony Baldwin" <baldwinling...@gmx.com> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 7:56:48 AM > Subject: Re: Sound on jessie > > > I was having a similar problem just last week after an update>safe > upgrade.. After scratching my head for several days and trying everything > I could think of (including querying this list), I found I had something > called PulseAudio-volume-control installed, a graphical tool to manage > volume for PA , and, when I found it, it showed "analog output" as muted > (no idea why), I unmuted it, and had my sound back! > If you can't find it, install it and check all the volume settings. > It's listed in the repos as pavucontrol. > so just apt-get install pavucontrol . > (or aptitude if you prefer) > aptitude install pavucontrol > Many thanks for your suggestion, Anthony. But I've already tried > pavucontrol, which I had installed quite a while ago. So I'm still > stymied. > > Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! > > Alan, who is pleased at least to be able to get on line from his jessie > install Usually there is a problem with something muted, so if pulse is OK go down and check alsamixer. I have tried that. Both channels(?) are set to 100, and I can move them lower with the Arrow keys. Otherwise I don't know how to operate this ncurses device. Now that we know Alan is using Ubuntu, he could even try ubuntu live in former or current version to compare. <LOL> I am not part of that "we". I am not using Ubuntu. Furthermore if I want to hear some nice music or listen to a Sanders speech on youtube, I get out of jessie, run my Windoze, use the Edge brower and go to youtube, where the sound works just great. This suggests to me, and I hope to my readers here, that there is something wrong with the way alsa works, or doesn't work, here. I can't imagine what the difficulty is, since the cogent suggestions that have been made here have not worked. Perhaps others have some ideas? Alan