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On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 17:39 +0100, Tony Sumner wrote: > > Have you looked at the input connectors in alsa mixer? > > Not yet. This morning alsa is not there and lsmod | grep snd returns nothing. > So I have to go through the installation all over again? Er ... every day? > (more below) > > > have you the alsamixer-gui? > > and have you got plulse audio? > > whereis says I have both these. I understand pulseaudio does some > clever things I don't need but there is a --kill option. > > > also are you KDE or Gnome? > > Er ... gnome. I always used KDF4 and liked it but with squeeze it was just > too difficult to get going and gnome is quite adequate for what I do. > > > Also have a look at www.debian-multimedia.org, vlc and mplayer > > wmv files are windows and the codecs to play them are restricted > > They are windows but the movie player in gnome will play them -- I have > checked with my wife's PC which also runs gnome. I also have vlc. > > ------------------------------------- > (later) > I restored snd_cmipci (which the ALSA soundcard matrix calls > snd-cmipci) and now aplay works again. > No sound in movie player or vlc. Is pulseaudio the problem perhaps? > I tried pulseaudio --kill and the reply is > 'E: main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process' > so maybe it is not running. 'pulseaudio --check' doesn't say anything. > > But wait; I can run alsamixer (and alsamixergui) as root but if I try > as user I get 'cannot open mixer: No such file or directory'. What file > is it on about? > > Tony > > rather than alsamixer have you used from System Preferences Sound ? mine in Fedora is a Right click on the speaker icon near the Clock or from the System menu, Preferences, Sound. This should show you the hardware, input devices and output devices my sound card is a Creative labs surround sound one, with "Digital and Analogue outputs. If I select Digital out, I get nothing as I have analogue speakers connected. Also it should auto select the input but in mine if I want the Mic, I need to manually set it here and if I want Line in I have to change it back again. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq