• [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use - Suggesti

    From Susmita/Rajib@21:1/5 to James Henry McCoy Jr on Mon Mar 15 18:50:02 2021
    On 15/03/2021, James Henry McCoy Jr <spaceknight2@hotmail.com> wrote:
    Your sound card Realtek may have problems with frequencies. To solve
    install OSS. It seems that it is supported. Install and restart.
    If installation errors, try installing alsa-oss

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    On Fri, 2021-03-12 at 15:12 +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote:
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    Thank you, Mr. McCoy, for replying to my request for solution. Could
    you please elaborate a little more please? Like, what could be the
    problems with frequencies? There are multiple 'oss' packages. A little
    more details please?

    Searched for oss in Debian package repository. It appears that
    oss4-base isn't available in Debian Stretch or Buster. It is in Jessie
    and Sid.

    Did not reach the stage for alsa-oss. The package was however found.

    Best.
    Rajib

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  • From ael@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 25 19:10:02 2021
    On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 07:10:08PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote:
    Were you talking of card0 while talking about cardn?

    Among any others. "n" was to be understood as a variable ranging over
    integers.

    While files do you want to peruse more? Just inform and I shall upload them.

    You really need to learn how to read files yourself.

    The alsa-info file is attached herewith for your kind perusal. I am

    I have only taken the briefest of glances. I am afraid that I know
    nothing of pulseaudio, and since it is installed and doing something to
    the ALSA system, I cannot help. Someone else here might be able to assist.

    But if you are trying to track down a problem, remove complications like pulseaudio and then see whether things work. You can put it back later
    if that is what you want to do: at least you will know that it is a
    pulseaudio problem if that is the case.

    I was bit surprised to see the codec shown as "Realtek Generic" without identifying the particular chip: perhaps I missed that.

    I see
    name 'Speaker Playback Volume'
    value.0 0
    value.1 0
    which suggest that the speakers are "off". Maybe that is how pulseaudio
    leaves them? But if you have been trying to get sound to the speakers,
    that looks like the first place to start. If you didn't have pulseaudio
    there, I would tell you to read the man page for alsamixer.

    ael

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  • From Susmita/Rajib@21:1/5 to ael on Thu Mar 25 23:10:01 2021
    On 25 Mar 2021 18:01:14 +0000, ael <law_ence.dev@ntlworld.com> wrote:
    Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use - Suggestion

    To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
    Subject: Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for
    use - Suggestion
    From: ael <law_ence.dev@ntlworld.com>
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    In-reply-to: <[🔎] CAEG4cZVFtVt-7ykjGhvtNzXRti-RJ045bQGpB9w3QpiMzAXXEQ@mail.gmail.com>

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    You really need to learn how to read files yourself.

    At the backdrop of a difficult national situation, we don't have sufficient institutions nearby from which to learn reading the man pages and the
    Linux command line system. Man is like a jigsaw puzzle, without
    example codes, written by aspergers afflicted.

    I have found a book, The Linux Command Line A Complete Introduction,
    2nd Ed, William E. Shotts Jr. Problem is that without a teacher, I
    don't know where to begin. So I am reading from the beginning.


    The alsa-info file is attached herewith for your kind perusal. I am

    I have only taken the briefest of glances. ... [snipped] ... ...

    Please have a look in depth ...

    ... [snipped] ... ... I am afraid that I know nothing of pulseaudio, and since it is installed and doing something to
    the ALSA system, I cannot help. Someone else here might be able to assist.

    I have told you that I have no qualms in removing it, if everything it
    does could be done from the command line with alsa. In fact, removed
    it. But alsa is so limited to terminal. Man page. Complex codelines.
    Setting up duplex playback-recording simultaneously is a real pain
    with man pages.

    I was bit surprised to see the codec shown as "Realtek Generic" without identifying the particular chip: perhaps I missed that.

    All information that you want of the card are on these threads: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=149074, the alsa-user list: https://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg33005.html
    and the debian-user list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/03/thrd2.html#00669

    If desired, i could copy outputs to the Google Drive link.

    I see
    name 'Speaker Playback Volume'
    value.0 0
    value.1 0
    which suggest that the speakers are "off". Maybe that is how pulseaudio leaves them? But if you have been trying to get sound to the speakers,
    that looks like the first place to start. If you didn't have pulseaudio there, I would tell you to read the man page for alsamixer.

    Exactly where to begin from, and where to look at, any inputs?

    Best.
    Rajib

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