On Fri, 21 May 2021 18:21:12 +1000, terryc wrote in message
<20210521182112.2cd5f...@dragonfly.woa.com.au>:
> On Fri, 21 May 2021 16:48:07 +1000
> terryc <ter...@woa.com.au> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 20 May 2021 21:50:18 -0700
> > Gregory Nowak via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 12:52:29PM +1000, terryc wrote:
> > > > I carried out the install from the recommended(last) chimera iso
> > > > and all basically was well. Sounds was there, but I didn't want
> > > > pulseaudio and removed it and installed alsa, alsaplayer,
> > > > alsamixer, etc.
> > > >
> > > > But I have no sound. It seems to have something to do with
> > > > certain drivers for PCMs not being installed.
> > >
> > > What does
> > >
> > > amixer -c0 get PCM
> > > amixer -c1 get PCM
> > >
> > > give you?
> >
> > Here tis;
> >
> > user@system:~$ amixer -c0 get PCM
> > amixer: Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0
> >
> > user@system:~$ amixer -c1 get PCM
> > Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
> > Capabilities: pvolume
> > Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
> > Limits: Playback 0 - 255
> > Mono:
> > Front Left: Playback 182 [71%] [-14.60dB]
> > Front Right: Playback 182 [71%] [-14.60dB]
> >
> > Terryc
>
> After a fair bit of searching `in turns out that
> /etc/asound.coinf and/or ~.asoundrc were missing
>
> Entering (/etc/asound.conf)
> for system wide setting.
>
> pcm.!default {
> type hw
> card 1
> }
>
> ctl.!default {
> type hw
> card 1
> }
>
> and a reboot fixed it.
>
> Entering (~.asoundrc)
> for oersonal(per login) setting
>
> defaults.pcm.!card 1
> defaults.ctl.!card 1
>
> YMMN, but that is all I need as I do not have any HDMI speakers or USB
> speakers, or bluetooth speakers.
>
> This fixed it for vlc, qasmixer and alsamixer in that they correctly
> took the speakers I wanted as default and I didnt have to manually
> select the motherboard sound chip.
>
> I'm still working on why the browsers(falkon & firefox-esr) and
> quiterss(what ever browser it loads) are not playing sound.
..try apulse $them, at least the firefox people said they
"would only support PulseAudio" a while back.
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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