Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 May 2019 at 20:31:33 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > On Mon, 2019-05-06 at 13:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Well, I've uprooted pulse and pulled in the rest of alsa. No sound > > before or after a reboot now. But I just ran alsamixergui, and found > > the front speakers tunred off. So I

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-09 Thread Jan Claeys
On Mon, 2019-05-06 at 13:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Well, I've uprooted pulse and pulled in the rest of alsa. No sound > before or after a reboot now. But I just ran alsamixergui, and found > the front speakers tunred off. So I have audio again, about 4x > louder than before. So take that Leo

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 06 May 2019 02:36:23 pm ghe wrote: > On 5/6/19 12:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 05 May 2019 09:04:18 pm Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Down > >> about 20 db from what I'm used to hearing. > > A 20 db loss on a beep can be a problem for us of the elderly > persuasion. Several years

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-06 Thread ghe
On 5/6/19 12:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 05 May 2019 09:04:18 pm Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Down >> about 20 db from what I'm used to hearing. A 20 db loss on a beep can be a problem for us of the elderly persuasion. Several years ago, an audiologist told me that my ears are 40 db dow

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 May 2019 09:04:18 pm Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have only one, very weak sound, from kmails new mail beep. Down > about 20 db from what I'm used to hearing. > > Everything else is muted. And I can't find the speaker-test utility > in the repo's to even begin to troub

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 06 May 2019 11:40:42 am Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-05-06 17:06:34) > > > On Monday 06 May 2019 04:05:46 am Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > [...] > > > > > In recent times, Pulseaudio "hijacks" direct ALSA access by > > > registering with ALSA as a virtual audio card

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 06 May 2019 11:06:34 am Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 06 May 2019 04:05:46 am Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > [...] > > > In recent times, Pulseaudio "hijacks" direct ALSA access by > > registering with ALSA as a virtual audio card, which reroutes > > through its pipeline and then sending ou

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-05-06 17:06:34) > On Monday 06 May 2019 04:05:46 am Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > [...] > > > > In recent times, Pulseaudio "hijacks" direct ALSA access by > > registering with ALSA as a virtual audio card, which reroutes through > > its pipeline and then sending out audio th

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 06 May 2019 03:33:06 am Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-06, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have only one, very weak sound, from kmails new mail beep. Down > > about 20 db from what I'm used to hearing. > > xset b 100? > Worked, but 100% is not that much louder, just enough t

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 06 May 2019 04:05:46 am Jonas Smedegaard wrote: [...] > > In recent times, Pulseaudio "hijacks" direct ALSA access by > registering with ALSA as a virtual audio card, which reroutes through > its pipeline and then sending out audio through the real audio card. > > You can force avoid Puls

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Gene, Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-05-06 08:44:18) > On Monday 06 May 2019 12:49:03 am David Wright wrote: > > > On Sun 05 May 2019 at 21:04:18 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I have only one, very weak sound, from kmails new mail beep. Down > > > about 20 db from what I'm used to hearing.

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-06, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have only one, very weak sound, from kmails new mail beep. Down about > 20 db from what I'm used to hearing. xset b 100? Does that set the bell/beep volume at a hundred percent? The man page says b ... If only one numerical paramet

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 06 May 2019 12:49:03 am David Wright wrote: > On Sun 05 May 2019 at 21:04:18 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have only one, very weak sound, from kmails new mail beep. Down > > about 20 db from what I'm used to hearing. > > > > Everything else is muted. And I can't find the speaker-

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 May 2019 at 21:04:18 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > I have only one, very weak sound, from kmails new mail beep. Down about > 20 db from what I'm used to hearing. > > Everything else is muted. And I can't find the speaker-test utility in > the repo's to even begin to troubleshoot, so