Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-20 Thread Porcia Silvia
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:30:02 +0100 Sharon Kimble wrote: >am now using alsa. The problem occurred when we > were trying to debug a problem with playing mp4 films on VLC, my > preferred programme for playing and watching films. It may be something as simple as selecting the correct 'device' in VLC

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-11 Thread Porcia Silvia
> Pity. There is a super firm in the UK! At Los Alamos Computer a reputable American company will install your choice of any GNU/Linux distribution on a variety of Lenovo Think Pads. http://laclinux.com/en/Laptop -- ps -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Squeeze-updates not working

2011-12-02 Thread Porcia Silvia
On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:40:01 +0100 bd satish wrote: > How to upgrade to new kernel ? Isn't squeeze stable? How about the unstable? You could add testing and unstable main to your sources.list then do: #apt-get install linux-image-amd64 This will bring with it the latest linux kernel and module

Re: VLC missing sound [solved]

2011-12-01 Thread Porcia Silvia
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:10:01 +0100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > task-xfce-desktop, (or the meta package xfce4), don't install pulseaudio... > Perhaps you selected something that required gnome-core? No gnome-core here [648MB]. I believe vlc must have brought pulseaudio with it. -- ps -- To UNSUBS

Re: VLC missing sound [solved]

2011-11-30 Thread Porcia Silvia
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:30:01 +0100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > > One might ask what made 'PulseAudio Output' the default on this system? > > > Would need to know more about your "system" to answer that it's a > requirement in several meta-packages. Possibly your DE (you don't say > what you're

Re: VLC missing sound [solved]

2011-11-29 Thread Porcia Silvia
This problem was caused by VLC selecting the 'default' output module under audio settings [menu: Tools-Preferences-Audio Settings-Output] The drop down menu shows in this case: 'default' and I thought ALSA was the default but apparently not..anyway I selected ALSA in the menu this then materialize

Re: VLC missing sound

2011-11-22 Thread Porcia Silvia
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:10:02 +0100 Jude DaShiell wrote: > Apparently yet another pulseaudio error. If I am not much mistaken the > debian espeakup distribution I have working on this system uses alsa > rather than pulseaudio which may be why it works. If some sound didn't > work in my case,

Re: VLC missing sound

2011-11-22 Thread Porcia Silvia
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:00:01 +0100 Jude DaShiell wrote: > Please run the following script and see if you still don't get sound. > Cut here: > > #!/bin/bash > # file: treasuretrove.sh - play treasure-trove stream with vlc script > vlc http://lin2.ash.fast-serv.com:9022 > > If that script doesn't

VLC missing sound

2011-11-21 Thread Porcia Silvia
I'm using the kernel 3.1.0-1-amd64 and Debian sid For a few weeks now I have had no sound from the VLC player Videolan is no help, they keep blaming the debian multimedia sources etc. Although VLC actually works well excepting that no sound is forthcoming. so..has anyone else had this problem?