"Stephen P. Molnar" <s.mol...@sbcglobal.net> writes: > On 03/11/2017 05:36 PM, Dominic Knight wrote: >> On Sat, 2017-03-11 at 09:39 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: >>> Up to date Jessie. >>> >>> Sound worked until I turned power off to the external speakers. The >>> sound has not been working since I turned the speakers back on. >>> >>> If I run 'speaker-test' I get noise, but if I run 'speaker-test -c 2 >>> -t >>> wav' I get 'front left' and 'front right' from the speakers. >>> >>> I am using the on-board sound: >>> >>> 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 HDMI Audio Controller >>> (rev a1) >>> Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 809f >>> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 25 >>> Memory at fe080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] >>> Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3 >>> Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ >>> Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 >>> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel >>> >>> I have proven, to my satisfaction, thanks to a suggestion from a >>> correspondent, that this is not a hardware problem. I loaded the >>> Xubuntu 17.04 Live Desktop on the computer and the sound is live. >>> >>> I would appreciate some help in solving this problem. >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >> >> As you most likely have two sound cards, one on-board and one with the >> video card (HDMI) it may be worthwhile installing pasystray as this may >> give you better control over which card you want to use, lots of >> options to reset sink, add modules etc. It helped me solve sound issues >> in the past when switching between on-board headphones and HDMI to the >> TV so worth a try at least. >> >> > Thanks for the suggestion. > > Here's what happens: > > comp@AbNormal:~$ /usr/bin/pasystray > ** Message: volume:53085 > > Then nothing. >
To get my sound working after a reboot I have to 'sudo alsactl init'. And then I load alsamixer, choose my soundcard and turn all bars up to 100%. Maybe this would help solve your problem? Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk DrugFacts = http://www.drugfacts.org.uk Debian 8.6, fluxbox 1.3.5-2, emacs 25.1.1.1
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