On Friday 16 January 2015 21:49:37, Ric Moore wrote : > On 01/16/2015 05:53 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > > On Friday 16 January 2015 10:33:23, Lisi Reisz wrote : > >> On Friday 16 January 2015 08:41:29 Frédéric Marchal wrote: > >>> BTW, I have pulseaudio installed in case it matters. > >> > >> So the advice is to have alsa and pulseaudio? > > > > I haven't investigated that far. I'm just stating a fact. > > > > I don't know what's the purpose of pulseaudio nor what are the benefits > > of having installed it. I don't know if it would break something to > > remove it. > > > > I believe it was installed at some point as part of a routine system > > update and may have been the cause of the sound failure in the first > > place. > > Nope, as you can use alsa directly at any time, as with aplay. I think > your old /etc/asoundrc is a leftover from upgrading from one release to > the next to the next. I'm running on a fresh install of Jessie and have > no /etc/asoundrc or ~/.asoundrc files at all. Maybe it's time or a fresh > install?? To me, the problem of a live upgrade is that all of the old > /home dotfile cruft hangs on forever. :) Ric
The initial problem, after installing wheezy, was that no sound was produced. It was due to alsa using the HDMI device by default. I had to create ~/.asoundrc to make alsa use the correct PCH device. That was a fresh install of wheezy on a new HP ProBook 650. There was no asoundrc but I needed one to make alsa use the correct device. I don't remember having seen pulseaudo after installing the system. I only noticed it at some point after the sound stopped working. I didn't install it on purpose. That's the reason I believe pulseaudio was pulled by a dependency during an update and broke my (possibly unusual) sound configuration. My problem is now solved. I unfortunately can't provide a full scientific analysis of what happened. I list every clue that might help anybody else facing the same problem. Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201501171329.31063.frederic.marc...@wowtechnology.com
