On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:01:37PM -0500, Kyle Schwarz wrote: > On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:09:01 +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote: > > I'm not willing to read it, until you exactly describe your troubles. > No sound comes from the speakers on the laptop. For some reason I do > hear sound though the headphone jack, but not though the speakers. > > The volume is not muted (I've made sure with alsamixer), and I know > the speakers work. > Two GUI apps I have found useful in troubleshooting audio are:
gstreamer-properties gnome-volume-control.pulse Besides that, find your audio devices with 'aplay -l' and/or 'aplay -L', then try playing to all of those devices like this: aplay -Dhw1,0 somefile.wav Note that aplay is picky about file formats. If I recall, flac files won't play. I use wav files and have generally been successful. Good luck! -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111224173408.ga32...@aurora.owens.net
