Excuse top post. Responding from phone. 1) what desktop environment?
2) what shows up under /proc/around/cards? 3) what are the speakers plugged into? Mark On Thu, May 14, 2020, 5:51 PM Alan Grimes <alonz...@verizon.net> wrote: > I don't really know why sound is working on my machine rn. > > I think there is some kind of embedded USB bus AMD thingy that generates > some digital stream that is simply played by a set of DACs on my mobo. > The chipset listed in the motherboard manual seems irrelevant. > > The capacitor in my speakers is dying again, I bought these speakers > back in 2006 and have hardly ever turned them off since. So they don't > have much gain anymore, So I need some boost from the card.... > > Because I need to change a setting, alsamixer just dies when I try to > configure it. When I try to select USB audio, the thing instantly > crashes to desktop. > > atg@tortoise ~ $ alsamixer > cannot load mixer controls: Broken pipe > atg@tortoise ~ $ > > B L E H ! ! ! ! > > -- > The vaccine is a LIE. > > Powers are not rights. > > > > >
