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Re: alsa troubles

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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

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alsa troubles Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-19 18:40 +0200
  Re: alsa troubles <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-19 18:50 +0200
    Re: alsa troubles Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-19 19:40 +0200
    Re: alsa troubles Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> - 2015-10-19 22:10 +0200
      Re: alsa troubles Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-19 23:00 +0200
        Re: alsa troubles Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-19 23:40 +0200
          Re: alsa troubles Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-20 00:00 +0200
            Re: alsa troubles Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 00:10 +0200
              Re: alsa troubles Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-20 00:20 +0200
                Re: alsa troubles Alex Moonshine <moonshine@openmailbox.org> - 2015-10-20 01:00 +0200
                Re: alsa troubles <briand@aracnet.com> - 2015-10-20 06:50 +0200
              Re: alsa troubles Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-20 00:50 +0200
                Re: alsa troubles Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 01:00 +0200
              Re: alsa troubles Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-20 01:00 +0200
                Re: alsa troubles Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 01:20 +0200
                Re: alsa troubles Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-20 02:10 +0200
                Re: alsa troubles Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 11:30 +0200
                Re: alsa troubles <briand@aracnet.com> - 2015-10-20 06:50 +0200
            Re: alsa troubles Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2015-10-20 11:30 +0200
  Re: alsa troubles Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2015-10-19 19:00 +0200
    Re: alsa troubles Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-19 19:40 +0200
    Re: alsa troubles Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-19 22:50 +0200
      Re: alsa troubles Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2015-10-20 05:10 +0200
        Re: alsa troubles Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-20 20:40 +0200
          Re: alsa troubles Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2015-10-20 20:50 +0200

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