Re: [Alsa-user] Sound on new Debian install is hosed -- problem solved

2014-11-14 Thread Alan McConnell
ething with an > effective energy momentum tensor with positive energy but > negative pressure seems to exist-- to be driving the universe. It is my understanding that the jury is very much out. I am not a physicist, but I have physicist friends

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound on new Debian install is hosed -- problem solved

2014-11-14 Thread Alan McConnell
video, or from a midi file that my Lilypond has created, or from an oggvorbis file, or whatever, still sound comes out of my speakers nicely. Obviously a complicated process. > On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, Alan McConnell wrote: > > > pulseaudio. From

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound on new Debian install is hosed -- problem solved

2014-11-14 Thread Alan McConnell
am very grateful to you for taking the time and expending the thought and effort on my (silly?) problem that you obviously have done. Also thanks to Clemens. I'll stay on this E-list in hopes of getting responses about what other people use instead of p

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound on new Debian install is hosed

2014-11-11 Thread Alan McConnell
m very much in the dark still. I am certainly using HDMI. If I have an asound.conf, I haven't found it. I hope that you will have new ideas! Alan -- Alan McConnell : http://globaltap.com/~alan/ "Laughter is the closest distance between two people."(V

Re: [Alsa-user] Sound on new Debian install is hosed

2014-11-10 Thread Alan McConnell
that will turn the sound on. I thought amixer used to do that. alsamixer gives me a pretty picture . . . It may be that I am a step away from sound. Can Prashant, or Clemens, or someone else, help with that step, or give another suggestion. TIA, and thanks to Prashant and Clemens

[Alsa-user] Sound on new Debian install is hosed

2014-11-10 Thread Alan McConnell
build ALSA on my own. Can ALSA be built from source? I have gcc 4.7.2 installed. I shall be extremely grateful for help, or suggestions. Alan -- Alan McConnell : http://globaltap.com/~alan/ "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."(S. Loren) One way to stop