On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:57:02PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> Hi Hendrik,
>
> Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > My system is an old ASUS netbook.
> >
> > I installed devuan alpha 2 when it was current, and have upgraded it
> > regularly. It should be an up-to-date devuan jessie, modulo a few
> > days.
> >
> > I've had sound working on this system.
> >
> > Long ago, with debian all I got was laptop loudspeaker sound.
> >
> > When I switched to devuan, sound appeared on headphones but never
> > loudspeaker. This worked around Christmas.
> >
> > Today I tried using audio again, and all I get is total silence.
> >
> > Has anything related changed in devuan?
> >
> > How do I go about diagnosing the problem?
> >
> > As far as I know, I'm using alsa.
>
> It's worth verifying that you don't have pulse audio
> installed.
>
> dpkg -l pulseaudio

That was enough. I ued aptitude to remove it, and it also took out
pulseaudio-module-x11.

Oh, I did an

    alsactl init

afterward just in case alsa needed initialization.

Now it works nicely.

-- hendrik

>
> Then, you can fiddle with alsamixer or aumix and raise
> all the settings to full. This is the most likely issue.
>
> If you have multiple sound cards, make sure to use
> the -c argument.
>
> The choice of kernels could also make a difference,
> but AFAIK, all recent kernels have ALSA drivers for
> typical builtin soundcards.
>
> cheers,
>
> Joel
>
> > -- hendrik
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> Joel Roth
>
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