On Monday 20 July 2015 18:04:33 Brian wrote: > 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. Post hoc yet again not meaning propter hoc???? ;-) But we don't really know much about what the OP did. We haven't heard from him since his initial enquiry. 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/201507201842.58482.lisi.re...@gmail.com
