On Sun 24 Jan 2016 at 14:29:57 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > 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.
pulseaudio is essential to have audio with the current Skype. It is doubtful pavucontrol is absolutely necessary. pulseaudio can be controlled from the command line. > 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. systemd is not shown as a dependency of pavucontrol. What *are* you talking about?
