Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Lisi Reisz Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: alsa troubles Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:10:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-user-request@lists.debian.org Mon Oct 19 22:04:44 2015 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.718 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FOURLA=0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 (enterprise35 0.20100827.1168748) X-Kmail-Quoteprefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Originating-Smarthost01d-IP: [82.69.30.110] X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/698944 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/201510192304.28188.lisi.reisz@gmail.com Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 37 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 23:04:28 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <201510192304.28188.lisi.reisz@gmail.com> X-Original-References: <2D72D495-E4D9-4290-941E-14B395F3F2F7@slsware.net> <201510192239.36564.lisi.reisz@gmail.com> <562566A4.8070300@slsware.net> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.user:159485 On Monday 19 October 2015 22:54:44 Glenn English wrote: > On 10/19/2015 03:39 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Since you appear to have Pulse Audio, > > I didn't know I did :-) > > why not use pavucontrol? > > It asked me to have my sysadmin install pavucontrol. So I did When I ran > it, and it said: > > "Connection to PulseAudio failed..." > > So maybe I really don't have PA? Or have I not configured something > properly? > > Since I didn't think PA was on this machine, I haven't done any audio > configuration, alsa or Pulse. Oh dear, it did say "unable to connect". My mistake. > ghe@sbox:~... alsamixer > ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) * **Pulse Audio***: Unable to connect: > Connection refused > > cannot open mixer: Connection refused > ghe@sbox:~... sudo alsamixer > ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) ***Pulse Audio***: Unable to connect: > Connection refused I almost hardly dare say it, it is barely better than saying s*****d, but when I have a problem with sound, I install Pulse Audio, install pavucontrol, and have a look at what it says. You do not have to be a sound engineer to understand it. I can rarely make head or tails of alsamixer. Lisi