On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 17:35:43 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > 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?
Only in the sense that it is possible there are fairies at the bottom of my garden. :) More seriously: the OP never ran the program. The installation-purging cycle is easy enough for anyone to carry out and observe the effect on the audio system. My test was on a machine without pulseaudio. The result was negative. -- 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/20072015175842.2a2929aa6...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
