On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:50:51PM +0100, Floris 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.
> > ... > 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 Floris, thanks. I understand that ALSA is present, but to run Skype I need pavucontrol and pulseaudio. I installed skype:i386 successfully in my 64-bit Thinkpad, but no sound. Discussions are ambivalent, but I sense that both pavucontrol and pulseaudio are needed to get Skype going. However, with pavucontrol I run into trouble. I find that pavucontrol 3.0-3+b2 in the Debian Sid repository has systemd as a dependency. I had removed systemd from my SID installation, and don't want it. pavucontrol 1.0-1 does not need systemd. I have in hand the source code for pavucontrol 2.0, but don't know if it requires systemd. Also I don't know if compiled it will be compatible with pulseaudio 7.1-2. Haines Brown
