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Re: Cannot find multimedia device

From J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: Cannot find multimedia device
Date 2012-03-20 15:05 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 10:34:00 -0400, Haines Brown wrote:

> That is, no sound from soundcard to speakers

Have you checked the cable and that it is fully inserted
into the audio out (often pale green) socket?

> The card may not be seated properly; the card may be shot

That is highly unlikely otherwise you would not be seeing
evidence from lspci or dmesg or the kernel module loading
or aplay working.

> PulseAudio is not automatically installed in debian stable yet.

Okay -- that is good news for your situation and removes
a level of complexity.  I wish you had stated that earlier.

So please do not install it  ;)

> I see the virtue of PulseAudio, but because of the Audacity problem it
> may be premature to head in that direction.

My comments were only in regard to *if* PulseAudio was installed
by default, *not* that you should install it.

> Thanks for the advice. The person for whom I am preparing the box is a
> musician, and while nothing fancy is required, it should be decent.

In that case they may be interested in jackd on top of ALSA.
(You can actually get PulseAudio and jackd to coexist but it
requires even more work.)

       <http://jackaudio.ORG/>

As a musician, PulseAudio would probably fight against the type
of things they wish to do.

Also they will probably be interested in this music software for
linux resource

       <http://linux-sound.ORG/>

But what does this all have to do with using Dragon Naturally Speaking
through Wine because that does not sound at first appearance
like an application useful to a musician?

> The Creative X-Fi card is a software simulation of X-Fi that
> does not work in Debian.

I do not understand what you mean by this at all.

> What I'm going to do is back up and reinstall debian with the
> X-Fi card, and I suspect things will go better.

That is best the approach and hope it all goes well.

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Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-15 12:31 -0400
  Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-15 16:52 +0000
    Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-16 14:33 -0400
      Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-16 20:26 +0000
        Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-17 06:54 -0400
          Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-17 12:48 +0000
            Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-17 12:57 +0000
            Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-17 14:01 -0400
              Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-17 20:11 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-18 15:38 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-18 20:50 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-19 16:30 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-19 22:21 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-20 10:34 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-20 15:05 +0000
              Re: Cannot find multimedia device Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> - 2012-03-17 21:15 +0100
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-17 20:58 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-30 08:31 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-30 13:35 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-30 18:35 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-31 09:18 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-31 08:32 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-31 16:46 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-31 18:08 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-04-01 10:30 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-04-01 13:06 +0000

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