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Re: [LUG] Debian and sound

 

The Berkeley mailer would let you reply to several posts but mutt doesn't.
Oh, well...

[BA]
  Big kernel and other subsystem changes between Squeeze and Wheezy: of
  course, that doesn't do much towards explaining exactly *why* you had
  that problem and as it now works for you anyway, we're obviously not
  going to get to the bottom of it either.

It works in Mint only but I don't want to leave Debian for Mint. I
should have said that Mint comes in two flavours (if mint can do that)
and the one I used is the Ubuntu one.

<snip>
  PS: what sound hardware have  you got on your rig anyway, out of
  curiousity? Surely it's just a bog standard Realtek integrated job? They
  normally (i.e., always) work straight out of the box.

There are two:
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller 
(rev a2)
01:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)

Ah, I see; this is 'legacy' stuff innit? 

[Simon]
  The normal reason for no sound in Debian is the volume is zero.
  ... make sure the appropriate device is selected 

I did check that. When I said that with Mint I didn't have to do anything
I did of course set the volume level. Selection though, hm. I just tried
again with Wheezy and I found that what you have to do (in KDE) is 

  K -> System settings -> multimedia -> phonon -> audio playback device
  -> select the CMI8738 -> apply 

and then sound works. I could have found this out before but how come Mint
knows what to do without my having to tell it? Works? Well I can play a
.wav file but Youtube is still silent so there is more to do. When I have 
got it working I may leave Squeeze for Wheezy.

[BA]

  PulseAudio seems to have infected every major distro by now

That's why I have two 'cards' I suppose. 


Thanks for the interesting discussion

Tony


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