On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 22:54:26 +0200 <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:33:30PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:22:38 -0400 > > Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:19:09PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > > > > > > > There's no alsa-base in Stretch. > > > > > > > > Should there be some other way of producing sounds? > > > > > > If you're looking for alsamixer, it's in alsa-utils. ALSA should > > > just work out of the box for most users who skip the Desktop > > > Environment during the installation (and therefore do not have to > > > circumvent pulse). > > > > > > The only steps required for most people are to install alsa-utils, > > > run alsamixer, unmute the master channels, and raise the volume > > > of the master channels above zero. > > > > > > > Thank you for an extremely prompt reply, but I've been there and > > done that: > > > > alsa-utils is already installed at the requested version (1.1.3-1) > > > > alsamixer > > > > cannot open mixer: No such file or directory > > You could try to list your cards and devices with aplay -l > >
OK, aplay -l as root sees my USB device as card 1. I have various sound modules loaded, including snd, soundcore and snd_usb_audio. I assume from this that my device driver has been found. Speaker-test is unable to find any sound cards. -- Joe

