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On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Antony Stone <
Antony.Stone@???> wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 August 2018 at 22:46:14, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> > I put Devuan
>
> Which version?
>
> > on my usual travel laptop
>
> Do, or did, you have any other O/S installed on it? If so, what?
>
> > a Panasonic FZ-G1
>
> What's the sound chip for one of those?
>
> > Everything works but the sound. Pulseaudio is sending to the sound
> > interface,
>
> How do you know? Show us some diagnostic output?
>
> > and nothing comes out of the speaker. Any clues?
>
> 1. If you have alsamixer installed, see if anything is muted.
>
> 2. If you have another O/S installed, can that produce sound, and if you
> have
> to adjust something to get it to produce sound, does it then work next
> time
> you boot Devuan?
>
> 2a. If you don't have another O/S installed, can you try Ubuntu or similar
> from a USB stick?
>
> 3. Have you got keyboard buttons (probably in combination with some "Fn"
> key)
> for un/mute and volume up/down? If yes, what happens if you try those?
>
> 4. Have you tried plugging speakers or headphones into the headset socket
> to
> see if that produces sound?
>
> 5. Do you have an HDMI monitor with speakers which you can try plugging
> into
> the HDMI port to see if sound comes out there?
>
>
> My guess is that either something is muted, or the default output is going
> over HDMI.
>
>
> Antony.
>
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