-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:10:45PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:00:02 +0100 > Floris <jkflo...@dds.nl> wrote: > > > Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:25:20 +0100 schreef Haines Brown > > <hai...@histomat.net>: > > > > > I apparently have ALSA on Debian Sid on a Thinkpad, or at least > > > alsa-mixer seems set up correctly. But $ speaker-test makes no sound. > > > > > > # lspci | grep audio returns nothing. So I wondered if alsa drivers are > > > installed. Soundcore is installed, but I discovered there is no longer > > > any alsa-modules package. > > > > The alsa modules are named snd_*** > > You can check your loaded modules with > > $ lsmod | grep snd > > > > > > > > In Sid has ALSA been replaced by pavucontrol? To get sound, must I > > > install it? > > > > > Alsa is build-in in the kernel. > > pavucontrol is just a gui for the pulseaudio mixer. It is up to you > > if you install it or use an other mixer > > > > Floris > > First using # dpkg -l grep | alsa > everything listed, remove with # dpkg -P (packages) You can list them all > with a > space between each for a sequential purge. Copy and paste is useful here. > > then: > > apt-get install pavucontrol > > I don't know why but this solution got sound working again for me after a long > fight with different configuration files that controlled ALSA.
Good for you. > pavucontrol might just be another mixer No, no. It's just the "mixer GUI for pulseaudio" > but it's more than that because it will > bring with it those necessary things to have sound on your computer (again) > The > ALSA era is now over for we the unstable. pavucontrol will likely find your > sound output device when it installs. Again, no. ALSA is a driver infrastructure. Pulseaudio is a sound daemon (and sits on top of -- among other things) ALSA. In your case, you are most probably using both (unless you're doing sound over the net, for example). What makes things a bit confusing is that ALSA also provides some user-space tools. BTW: I have sound, am running a combination of stable and unstable and have no pulseaudio. So it's quite doable. regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlah3XkACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbKMwCbBstveJZyPxasopaM2wNelyrG URoAn1sBd2v821aqpd0q3kzGLbrtrkRg =v2W8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
