вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 21:15, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>:
gevisz wrote:
вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 17:20, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>:
gevisz wrote:Thank you for your input. Yes, it seems that something is muted but what? I have no KDE and no kmix installed. No pulseaudio.
No sound at least in Firefox. Tried it on youtube. Skype is currently >>> uninstalled. So, I cannot check using it.Just a thought. Are you sure that everything is unmuted? Years ago,
all the sound control software, Kmix, alsa and others, default to mute. >> If just one of them is muted, no sound. I seem to recall when I did my >> install on this rig that I had to unmute the sound in three places,
Kmix, alsa and one other that I can't recall the name of. I think I had >> to turn up the volume on alsa as it was set to a really low level once >> it was unmuted. Usually, I turn all of them to the max except the one I >> mainly use. In my case, Kmix is the one I use to really control things >> since it sits on the panel thingy. The others are set at the max.
It's a silly thing but thought it worth a mention just in case there is >> a muted setting somewhere.
Type in alsamixer in a console or whatever you use and hit tab twice. I suspect you have that installed. You should have a text version, like a console uses, and a gui version, that should work in any DM. Pick your poison and see if anything there is muted or the volume is set really
low, like 1 out of 100 or something. I think hitting the "m" key
toggles the mute.
I am sorry to confess that I forgot that I should use M to unmute
a channel in alsamixer (as I did about 14 years ago) and thought
that arrows up and down do all the work. :(
So, now the problem has been solved.
пн, 19 окт. 2020 г. в 00:15, gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>:
вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 21:15, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>:
gevisz wrote:
вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 17:20, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>:
gevisz wrote:Thank you for your input. Yes, it seems that something is muted but what?
No sound at least in Firefox. Tried it on youtube. Skype is currently >>> uninstalled. So, I cannot check using it.Just a thought. Are you sure that everything is unmuted? Years ago, >> all the sound control software, Kmix, alsa and others, default to mute.
If just one of them is muted, no sound. I seem to recall when I did my
install on this rig that I had to unmute the sound in three places,
Kmix, alsa and one other that I can't recall the name of. I think I had
to turn up the volume on alsa as it was set to a really low level once >> it was unmuted. Usually, I turn all of them to the max except the one I
mainly use. In my case, Kmix is the one I use to really control things
since it sits on the panel thingy. The others are set at the max.
It's a silly thing but thought it worth a mention just in case there is
a muted setting somewhere.
I have no KDE and no kmix installed. No pulseaudio.
Type in alsamixer in a console or whatever you use and hit tab twice. I suspect you have that installed. You should have a text version, like a console uses, and a gui version, that should work in any DM. Pick your poison and see if anything there is muted or the volume is set really low, like 1 out of 100 or something. I think hitting the "m" key
toggles the mute.
I am sorry to confess that I forgot that I should use M to unmute
a channel in alsamixer (as I did about 14 years ago) and thought
that arrows up and down do all the work. :(
So, now the problem has been solved.
Last time I have ended the discussion on my
"no sound" problem acknowledging that I was
so stupid that "forgot that I should use M to
unmute a channel in alsamixer."
However, it turned out that it was not the case:
currently I have all channels in alsamixer unmuted
and have sound only in about 1 from 10 bootings of
my Gentoo system, while I do always have sound
on the same computer while I boot it with Ubuntu 20.04.
I have also compared the output of lsmod command
on both systems and found out that my Gentoo system
had all sound kernel modules that my Ubuntu system has
and even more. (In Gentoo, I still have quite an old 5.4.97
kernel, but I do not think that it is the cause of my
"no sound" problem.)
Of course, it is completely my responsibility that
I have built my Gentoo system in such a way that
I never know if I will have sound after its next boot.
However I am lost guessing what I did wrong.
(Comparing with Ubuntu 20.04, my Gentoo system
has no systemd and no pulseaudio, no consolekit,
and no policykit.)
I leave this just for history, as I am currently
in a war zone and so investigating this problem
further is not in my priority list. :(
пт, 11 мар. 2022 г. в 20:15, gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>:
пн, 19 окт. 2020 г. в 00:15, gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>:
вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 21:15, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>:
gevisz wrote:
вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 17:20, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>:
gevisz wrote:
No sound at least in Firefox. Tried it on youtube. Skype is
currently
uninstalled. So, I cannot check using it.
Just a thought. Are you sure that everything is unmuted? Years
ago,
all the sound control software, Kmix, alsa and others, default to
mute.
If just one of them is muted, no sound. I seem to recall when I
did my
install on this rig that I had to unmute the sound in three places, >> Kmix, alsa and one other that I can't recall the name of. I think >> I had
to turn up the volume on alsa as it was set to a really low level
once
it was unmuted. Usually, I turn all of them to the max except the >> one I
mainly use. In my case, Kmix is the one I use to really control
things
since it sits on the panel thingy. The others are set at the max. >>
It's a silly thing but thought it worth a mention just in case
there is
a muted setting somewhere.
Thank you for your input. Yes, it seems that something is muted but what?
I have no KDE and no kmix installed. No pulseaudio.
Type in alsamixer in a console or whatever you use and hit tab twice. I
suspect you have that installed. You should have a text version, like a
console uses, and a gui version, that should work in any DM. Pick
your
poison and see if anything there is muted or the volume is set really low, like 1 out of 100 or something. I think hitting the "m" key toggles the mute.
I am sorry to confess that I forgot that I should use M to unmute
a channel in alsamixer (as I did about 14 years ago) and thought
that arrows up and down do all the work. :(
So, now the problem has been solved.
Last time I have ended the discussion on my
"no sound" problem acknowledging that I was
so stupid that "forgot that I should use M to
unmute a channel in alsamixer."
However, it turned out that it was not the case:
currently I have all channels in alsamixer unmuted
and have sound only in about 1 from 10 bootings of
my Gentoo system, while I do always have sound
on the same computer while I boot it with Ubuntu 20.04.
I have also compared the output of lsmod command
on both systems and found out that my Gentoo system
had all sound kernel modules that my Ubuntu system has
and even more. (In Gentoo, I still have quite an old 5.4.97
kernel, but I do not think that it is the cause of my
"no sound" problem.)
Of course, it is completely my responsibility that
I have built my Gentoo system in such a way that
I never know if I will have sound after its next boot.
However I am lost guessing what I did wrong.
(Comparing with Ubuntu 20.04, my Gentoo system
has no systemd and no pulseaudio, no consolekit,
and no policykit.)
I leave this just for history, as I am currently
in a war zone and so investigating this problem
further is not in my priority list. :(
I have accidentally found that the problem with
absence of sound on my Gentoo box appears
only when my USB Logitech webcam is connected
to the computer during the boot time.
Moreover, if it happens and the sound is absent,
the alsamixer shows that my USB Logitech webcam
is considered by the system as a default sound device.
So, it tries to send sound there even though it does
not have any speaker.
On this laptop the onboard WiFi has to be switched on already at boot
time, or I need to reboot after switching it on. Restarting the wlan0 service without a reboot fails to connect to the AP.
God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t,"
and there was light.
On Thursday, 14 July 2022 07:19:14 BST gevisz wrote:
пт, 11 мар. 2022 г. в 20:15, gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>:
пн, 19 окт. 2020 г. в 00:15, gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>:
вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 21:15, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>:
gevisz wrote:
вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 17:20, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>:
gevisz wrote:
No sound at least in Firefox. Tried it on youtube. Skype is
currently
uninstalled. So, I cannot check using it.
Just a thought. Are you sure that everything is unmuted? Years >> ago,
all the sound control software, Kmix, alsa and others, default to >> mute.
If just one of them is muted, no sound. I seem to recall when I >> did my
install on this rig that I had to unmute the sound in three places,
Kmix, alsa and one other that I can't recall the name of. I think >> I had
to turn up the volume on alsa as it was set to a really low level >> once
it was unmuted. Usually, I turn all of them to the max except the >> one I
mainly use. In my case, Kmix is the one I use to really control >> things
since it sits on the panel thingy. The others are set at the max. >>
It's a silly thing but thought it worth a mention just in case
there is
a muted setting somewhere.
Thank you for your input. Yes, it seems that something is muted but what?
I have no KDE and no kmix installed. No pulseaudio.
Type in alsamixer in a console or whatever you use and hit tab twice. I
suspect you have that installed. You should have a text version, like
a
console uses, and a gui version, that should work in any DM. Pick your
poison and see if anything there is muted or the volume is set really low, like 1 out of 100 or something. I think hitting the "m" key toggles the mute.
I am sorry to confess that I forgot that I should use M to unmute
a channel in alsamixer (as I did about 14 years ago) and thought
that arrows up and down do all the work. :(
So, now the problem has been solved.
Last time I have ended the discussion on my
"no sound" problem acknowledging that I was
so stupid that "forgot that I should use M to
unmute a channel in alsamixer."
However, it turned out that it was not the case:
currently I have all channels in alsamixer unmuted
and have sound only in about 1 from 10 bootings of
my Gentoo system, while I do always have sound
on the same computer while I boot it with Ubuntu 20.04.
I have also compared the output of lsmod command
on both systems and found out that my Gentoo system
had all sound kernel modules that my Ubuntu system has
and even more. (In Gentoo, I still have quite an old 5.4.97
kernel, but I do not think that it is the cause of my
"no sound" problem.)
Of course, it is completely my responsibility that
I have built my Gentoo system in such a way that
I never know if I will have sound after its next boot.
However I am lost guessing what I did wrong.
(Comparing with Ubuntu 20.04, my Gentoo system
has no systemd and no pulseaudio, no consolekit,
and no policykit.)
I leave this just for history, as I am currently
in a war zone and so investigating this problem
further is not in my priority list. :(
I have accidentally found that the problem with
absence of sound on my Gentoo box appears
only when my USB Logitech webcam is connected
to the computer during the boot time.
Moreover, if it happens and the sound is absent,
the alsamixer shows that my USB Logitech webcam
is considered by the system as a default sound device.
So, it tries to send sound there even though it does
not have any speaker.
I'll blame some relatively recent change in the kernel
or some interaction with udev.
чт, 14 июл. 2022 г. в 14:57, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>:
I'll go on a guess alsa got installed on the system.
If that is correct, please try a command as root in terminal
if necessary or on console:
amixer set Master 100% unmute && alsactl store && aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
It's possible that doesn't work because /var/lib/alsa/asound.state exists or /var/lock/alsa.lock exists.
If those two files do not exist and pulseaudio and/or pipewire hasn't gummed up the works that should work.
I'll go on a guess alsa got installed on the system. If that is correct, please try a command as root in terminal if necessary or on console:
amixer set Master 100% unmute && alsactl store && aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
It's possible that doesn't work because /var/lib/alsa/asound.state exists
or /var/lock/alsa.lock exists.
If those two files do not exist and pulseaudio and/or pipewire hasn't
gummed up the works that should work.
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