Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Kaj Persson
On 2019-06-04 at 23:47, Joe Dennigan wrote: Dan Ritter writes: Kaj Persson wrote: I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be

Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread Kaj Persson
I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be the one and only audio system? Are there any serious disadvantages doing so? /Kaj

Re: No sound

2019-05-15 Thread Kaj Persson
Den 2019-05-14 kl. 18:09, skrev Curt: On 2019-05-12, 70147pers...@telia.com <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: I have no sound at all. By starting e.g. VLC or Audacity with a *.wav file I can see this executed, in Audacity also the wave form, but nothing from the loudspeaker. Since July, 2018? ht

Re: No sound

2019-05-14 Thread Kaj Persson
Den 2019-05-12 kl. 19:30, skrev David Wright: On Sun 12 May 2019 at 13:08:33 (+0200), 70147pers...@telia.com wrote: Inxi is telling that the sound card, Device-1, is Intel 82801I HD Audio, and the driver: snd_hda_intel. This raises the question of what device 0 is, and whether the sound is

Re: No sound

2019-05-14 Thread Kaj Persson
Den 2019-05-12 kl. 17:28, skrev Jonas Smedegaard: Quoting Hans (2019-05-12 17:12:13) Got in the same problem half a year ago. Some program was blocking the sounddevice. I remeber, there was a command. which shows, which application is just accessing the sound device (dev/snd). Maybe someone

Re: No sound

2019-05-14 Thread Kaj Persson
Den 2019-05-12 kl. 13:59, skrev arne: On Sun, 12 May 2019 13:08:33 +0200 (CEST) "70147pers...@telia.com" <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: I have no sound at all. By starting e.g. VLC or Audacity with a *.wav file I can see this executed, in Audacity also the wave form, but nothing from the louds

Re: No sound/audio

2018-07-19 Thread Kaj Persson
Den 2018-07-18 kl. 07:07, wrote deloptes: 70147pers...@telia.com wrote: Nothing else, I love Firefox, and appreciate really the work all these volunteers are doing, but if I cannot get sound from that programme the way I prefer, I feel I am forced to look for another browser. Anyone who knows

Re: How to gain control over the system?

2017-07-13 Thread Kaj Persson
On 2017-07-12 at 03:49, Felix Miata wrote: Kaj Persson composed on 2017-07-11 22:29 (UTC+0200): ... ls -Al /home: drwxr-xr-x 39 kaj kaj 16384 jul 11 17:23 kaj OK... and from the command tree -qpadxugL 2 /home: /home ... │ ├── [drwxrwx--- root kaj ] DATA ... │ ├── [drwxrwx

Re: How to gain control over the system?

2017-07-11 Thread Kaj Persson
On 2017-07-10 at 01:36, Felix Miata wrote: Kaj Persson composed on 2017-07-09 14:54 (UTC+0200): * Regarding access to my user directory: During my search I did in fact find some files and directories owned by user root or group root. These are changed to be owned by my user id and group id

Re: How to gain control over the system?

2017-07-09 Thread Kaj Persson
marked "Keep ajusted" (right click on desktop). So...? /Kaj Den 2017-07-09 kl. 22:28, skrev Jimmy Johnson: On 07/08/2017 02:57 PM, Kaj Persson wrote: Hi all, So can someone help me get the command back, or do I have to make a new reinstall, hoping for better luck. Possibly setting

Re: How to gain control over the system?

2017-07-09 Thread Kaj Persson
Yes, a good try, but ... Owner and group for /home is root resp. root, and for /home/cookoo (to use your example) is the correct user name resp. group. I have also looked one level further, hence /home/cookoo/subdir/, and all directories on this level have the same ownership (=user name - group)

Re: How to gain control over the system?

2017-07-09 Thread Kaj Persson
Well, as I wrote my /home is an own partition, and so it has been for a long time. So it is not a new copy but a new mount. Certainly it therefore contains old config files that maybe ought to be removed. But on the other hand almost all of them are reused, since many of them belong to applica

Re: How to gain control over the system?

2017-07-09 Thread Kaj Persson
Thank you all for thoughts and viewpoints on what can be wrong in my installation of Debian 9. I have looked through places I might expect can contain some explanation, but so far I have not been able to exclaim an "Ah, that's it!". Here are some of my observations: * First source of install:

How to gain control over the system?

2017-07-08 Thread Kaj Persson
Hi all, Anyone having an idea how to get back the command over my desktop, including the panels? Until two weeks ago I ran Debian 8 ("jessie"), but after a unsuccessful clean-up operation the whole system became totally corrupted, and I decided to to a complete new install of the new Debian 9