Re: Sound Problem

From	"Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Sound Problem
Date	2017-03-12 19:50 +0100
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On 03/12/2017 01:59 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> To get my sound working after a reboot I have to 'sudo alsactl init'.
> And then I load alsamixer, choose my soundcard and turn all bars up to
> 100%.
>
> Maybe this would help solve your problem?
>
> Sharon.
>

Many thanks to all who replied to my cry for help.

I managed to stumble on the solution by un-muting the master in alsamixer.

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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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