Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Gene Heskett Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: next amd64 stretch problem Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 17:50:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-user-request@lists.debian.org Mon May 6 15:41:38 2019 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.899 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DIGITS_LETTERS=1, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, WEIRD_PORT=0.001] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -4.7 X-Asg-Debug-ID: 1557157283-0ea5c10ba915dd7f0001-KlT975 X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: gheskett@shentel.net X-Barracuda-Effective-Source-IP: UNKNOWN[204.111.64.149] X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP: 204.111.64.149 Organization: none,nada,zip X-Asg-Orig-Subj: Re: next amd64 stretch problem User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 X-Kmail-Quoteprefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Barracuda-Connect: UNKNOWN[172.26.51.4] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1557157283 X-Barracuda-URL: https://172.26.193.44:443/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Scan-Msg-Size: 2464 X-Barracuda-Brts-Status: 1 X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.50 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.50 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=6.0 tests=WEIRD_PORT X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.3.70895 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.50 WEIRD_PORT URI: Uses non-standard port number for HTTP X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/748341 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/201905061141.22420.gheskett@shentel.net Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 65 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 11:41:22 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: <201905061141.22420.gheskett@shentel.net> X-Original-References: <201905052104.18120.gheskett@shentel.net> <155712994665.8327.4088160703993406798@auryn.jones.dk> <201905061106.34332.gheskett@shentel.net> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.user:208294 On Monday 06 May 2019 11:06:34 am Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 06 May 2019 04:05:46 am Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > [...] > > > In recent times, Pulseaudio "hijacks" direct ALSA access by > > registering with ALSA as a virtual audio card, which reroutes > > through its pipeline and then sending out audio through the real > > audio card. > > > > You can force avoid Pulseaudio by starting an application like this > > from a terminal: > > > > pasuspender -- speaker-test > > which gets me total silence, except for a low level beep from kmail > (trinity version r14.0.6) as mail is incoming. What does that tell > us? > > I'm a dummy about such, so please carry on. > > > If that makes audio louder, then you have identified that you > > generally use Pulseaudio and it is dampening: Look for Pulseaudio > > tools and turn the (many many many!) knobs in there... > > > > Here are some of the Pulseaudio tools you could try: > > > > pulsemixer (text-based) > > pamix (text-based) > > pavucontrol (graphical) > > paman (graphical - not volume control but other settings) > > pasystray (puts pavucontrol and paman into system tray) > > I installed all opf these that synaptic could find, pavucontrol came up and I turned everyting wide open, and haven't heard a thing since. I think I should remove all of pulse, alsa used to just work. AV97 sound on this mobo. Other suggestions? FF, sent to foxnews or to youtube, is frozen with a circular waiting icon in motion forever now when asked to play a video at either site. So I can't even watch the hand waving. > > > > If messing with Pulseaudio doesn't work for kmail then try look into > > KDE settings or try locate other ways to configure Phonon - or > > perhaps try remove the phonon backend packages you don't want: > > Modern KDE applications (those linked with Qt5) can use either of > > the packages phonon4qt5-backend-vlc phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer > > phonon4qt5-backend-null, and older KDE applications (those linked > > with Qt4) can use either of the packages phonon-backend-vlc > > phonon-backend-gstreamer phonon-backend-null. > > > > > > Good luck :-) > > > > - Jonas > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page