Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-10 Thread Nick White
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 01:25:27PM +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Thank you! I didn't see your post until after I ordered a Pocketbook. :( Darn it - debian-user is hard to keep on top of; sorry I didn't answer sooner. > Right now, I plan to install an ssh server and busybox on my new devi

Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-10 Thread Nick White
Hi Panayiotis, I too like the idea of e-readers, without spying, adverts, and other freedom impeding 'features.' The Kobo and the Bookeen (recommended earlier in this thread) both look like they use the linux kernel and busybox, so offer source for those, but are otherwise quite proprietary. I ca

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-03 Thread Nick White
Hi Keith, On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 07:50:18PM +0100, Keith McKenzie wrote: > Download the latest alsa-driver package from alsa-project.org. I did this, then installed linux-headers, and did ./configure && make && sudo make install After rebooting, whatdya know, it works! Horrah! Thanks a lot eve

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:53:58PM +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Ok.. I know these may sound really naive... but with the integrated > audio thingies sometimes audio is really troublesome to set up even > if everything is working correctly, so: > > - Are you 100% sure you have plugged your headph

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:16:28PM +0200, Jens-Michael Hoffmann wrote: > I've got the same issue on sid. At the moment I'm working around it by > killing > pulseaudio after booting. When it then autimatically restarts, sound is > working for me. Hi Jens-Michael, That doesn't sound like the sam

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:29:56PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > well, as showed from aplay -l your model is : ALC887-VD > `cd /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver` and `gunzip HD-Audio-Models.txt.gz` > > open HD-Audio-Models.txt with your favourite text editor/viewer, rows > [128..153] they seems t

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:16:12PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Have a look at /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/ > there are lots of info about hd models (install alsa-base if you don't) > > look for your souncard model infod in the relevant files and the specify > your model in /etc/modprobe.

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 07:25:10AM -0400, Tom Ashley wrote: > I spent the last 2 days trying to resolve this same issue on a new > motherboard. The alternative method from http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA > worked for me. Thanks for the tip. However, I'd really like to get this working using a stock k

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:05:31PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Ok, this all looks good. Please make sure that you turn off any program > that may produce sounds[1] and try as root *and* as user: > > speaker-test -c2 > > You should hear hissing (pink) noise alternating from the left and ri

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:06:40PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > What about 'amixer'? amixer: Mixer default load error: Invalid argument -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:48:21PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > This is not very encouraging (given that you are already using a fairly > new kernel), am I correct to assume this is a (very) new board? Yes, likely. It's a new PC, so could well be. > Please also add output of: 'aplay -l' outpu

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:14:44PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 02.04.2012 12:49, Nick White wrote: > > One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. > > Try installing Pulseaudio. It has fixed same issue for me. Didn't help, unfortunately. Unsuprisingly,

No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Nick White
Hi debian folks, I installed Debian last week (for the first time), and things generally went very nicely. One thing which isn't yet working though is sound. I'm currently using the kernel from debian-backports (linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64) in order to get my ethernet working, but the same th