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Re: Sound Problem

From "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Sound Problem
Date 2017-03-12 18:20 +0100
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On 03/11/2017 05:36 PM, Dominic Knight wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-03-11 at 09:39 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>> Up to date Jessie.
>>
>> Sound worked until I turned power off to the external speakers.  The
>> sound has not been working since I turned the speakers back on.
>>
>> If I run 'speaker-test' I get noise, but if I run 'speaker-test -c 2
>> -t
>> wav' I get 'front left' and 'front right' from the speakers.
>>
>> I am using the on-board sound:
>>
>> 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 HDMI Audio Controller
>> (rev a1)
>> 	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 809f
>> 	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 25
>> 	Memory at fe080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>> 	Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
>> 	Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>> 	Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
>> 	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
>>
>> I have proven, to my satisfaction, thanks to a suggestion from a
>> correspondent, that this is not a hardware problem.  I loaded the
>> Xubuntu 17.04 Live Desktop on the computer and the sound is live.
>>
>> I would appreciate some help in solving this problem.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
> As you most likely have two sound cards, one on-board and one with the
> video card (HDMI) it may be worthwhile installing pasystray as this may
> give you better control over which card you want to use, lots of
> options to reset sink, add modules etc. It helped me solve sound issues
> in the past when switching between on-board headphones and HDMI to the
> TV so worth a try at least.
>
>
Thanks for the suggestion.

Here's what happens:

comp@AbNormal:~$ /usr/bin/pasystray
** Message: volume:53085

Then nothing.

-- 
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.		Life is a fuzzy set
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Sound Problem "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-03-11 15:40 +0100
  Re: Sound Problem Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-03-11 19:50 +0100
    Re: Sound Problem "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-03-11 20:10 +0100
      Re: Sound Problem Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-03-11 23:30 +0100
        Re: Sound Problem "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-03-11 23:40 +0100
  Re: Sound Problem Dominic Knight <dominicknight@gmx.com> - 2017-03-12 00:00 +0100
    Re: Sound Problem "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-03-12 18:20 +0100
      Re: Sound Problem Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> - 2017-03-12 19:10 +0100
        Re: Sound Problem "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-03-12 19:50 +0100
    Re: Sound Problem SDA <marathon.durandal@gmail.com> - 2017-03-12 20:20 +0100

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