On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote: > On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote: > > >I'm new to Debian. > > > > > >Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k. > > > > > >Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package > > >manager) a speech recognition software (pocketsphinx). I removed > > >it without ever having used it. > > > > > >Now the audio does not work. Neither in the browser (iceweasel) > > >nor with VLC media player. > > > > > >Is there a straight-forward "restore" function for the relevant > > > software? > > > > > >William > > > > Yes. You can switch to root, purge then reinstall the sound package > > (pulseaudio). However, I'd first recommend making sure the output > > volume wasn't simply turned down. > > > > If it wasn't, I'd then suspect that pocketsphinx didn't restore the > > old settings when you removed it. Try running LC_ALL=C. > > The solution to every audio problem is not purging pulseaudio. Have you > looked at the software in question? It depends on libc6 and three > libraries. Installing the package doesn't alter anything as there are > no maintainer scripts run. Purging it does not mute previosly unmuted > channels (as shown by alsamixer). > > Installing pocketsphinx and now having non-working audio are unrelated.
It is possible, is it not, that pocketshinx mutes something by default and hasn't unmuted it? Lisi -- 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/201507201735.43224.lisi.re...@gmail.com
