Re: No Sound - Puzzle

From	Thomas George <lists@tomgeorge.info>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: No Sound - Puzzle
Date	2017-11-17 05:30 +0100
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I tried pavucontrol but still no sound.

I concluded there must be a conflict between also and pulseaudio so I 
purged pulseaudio. This did not help.

I switched the line out cable to the onboard sound card. With alsamixer 
set to the onboard sound card there sound and the volume can be 
controlled with the master/front control.

With the line out cable connected to the xonar card and the alsamixer 
set to the xonar card there is no sound. With pulseaudio purged there is 
no signal monitor but before its deletion pavucontrol showed the xonar 
connection and its signal monitor showed a strong signal.

Conclusion: Alsamixer shows volume settings for each sound card but does 
not switch to the output stream of the card, this remains the stream 
from the onboard  audio regardless of the alsamixer sound card selection.

There must be another setting switch the output stream.

I also wish alsa had a signal strength monitor. Maybe I should reinstall 
pulseaudio.


On 11/16/2017 11:44 AM, Jeroen Mathon wrote:
>
> It is called, pavucontrol
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, 17:43 Thomas George, <lists@tomgeorge.info 
> <mailto:lists@tomgeorge.info>> wrote:
>
>     I would like to try this but there is no pamixer. apropos pulseaudio
>     shows many pa... commands but no pamixer. apt-cache search pamixer
>     returns a blank line.
>
>
>     On 11/15/2017 09:45 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>     > please try all of this using pamixer, pulseaudio is controled by its
>     > own mixer software not by alsamixer.  Remember pulseaudio when
>     > installed manages alsa and not the other way around.
>     >
>     > On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Thomas George wrote:
>     >
>     >> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 18:21:07
>     >> From: Thomas George <lists@tomgeorge.info
>     <mailto:lists@tomgeorge.info>>
>     >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>     <mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>     >> Subject: Re: No Sound - Puzzle
>     >> Resent-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:28:49 +0000 (UTC)
>     >> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>     <mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>     >>
>     >> From a terminal run alsamixer, f6, select Xonar DSX
>     >>
>     >> On another terminal cd to a directory of ogg files, start a
>     playback
>     >> of a file.
>     >>
>     >> Oh the desktop start pulse audio volume control. Monitor shows
>     strong
>     >> active playback levels
>     >>
>     >> Switch to terminal running alsamixer, mute master front which mutes
>     >> all output channels.
>     >>
>     >> Return to desktop pulse audio volume control, monitor continues to
>     >> show strong active playback levels even though alsamixer thinks all
>     >> output channels muted!
>     >>
>     >> The music goes down and around and comes out nowhere!
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> On 11/15/2017 03:35 PM, Thomas George wrote:
>     >>>  I just installed an Asus Xonar DSX pcie card. Alsamixer
>     recognizes
>     >>> it and
>     >>>  PulseAudio Volume Control show a strong signal level during
>     >>> playback but
>     >>>  no sound from the speakers. The system works with the onboard
>     Nvidia
>     >>>  sound, no problems.
>     >>>
>     >>>  I assume the problem is a missing linux driver for the Xonar
>     but I
>     >>> have
>     >>>  seen claims that Xonar works out of the box on linux systems.
>     >>>
>     >>>  Does anyone have this working?
>     >>>
>     >>>  I am using Debian Stretch.
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >
>

Thread

No Sound Thomas George <lists@tomgeorge.info> - 2017-11-15 21:40 +0100
  Re: No Sound deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-11-15 23:10 +0100
  Re: No Sound - Puzzle Thomas George <lists@tomgeorge.info> - 2017-11-16 00:30 +0100
    Re: No Sound - Puzzle Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> - 2017-11-16 03:40 +0100
    Re: No Sound - Puzzle Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-11-16 03:50 +0100
      Re: No Sound - Puzzle Jeroen Mathon <jeroenmathonmac@gmail.com> - 2017-11-16 17:50 +0100
        Re: No Sound - Puzzle Thomas George <lists@tomgeorge.info> - 2017-11-17 05:30 +0100
          Re: No Sound - Puzzle deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-11-17 08:10 +0100
            Re: No Sound - Puzzle Thomas George <lists@tomgeorge.info> - 2017-11-17 14:50 +0100
              Re: No Sound - Puzzle deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-11-17 21:00 +0100
              Re: No Sound - Puzzle davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2017-11-17 22:10 +0100
                Re: No Sound - Puzzle deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-11-17 22:20 +0100
                Re: No Sound - Puzzle - Losing Ground Thomas George <lists@tomgeorge.info> - 2017-11-18 02:50 +0100
                Re: No Sound - Puzzle - Losing Ground Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-11-18 05:10 +0100
          Re: No Sound - Puzzle Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-11-17 17:50 +0100
      Re: No Sound - Puzzle Thomas George <lists@tomgeorge.info> - 2017-11-16 17:50 +0100
        Re: No Sound - Puzzle deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-11-16 20:10 +0100
        Re: No Sound - Puzzle Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-11-16 20:40 +0100

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