Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble
Hi Jude,
Thanks for the idea, here's what came back:
lenny@lenny-desktop:~$ amixer sset pcm 100% unmute graphic 192 amixer:
Unable to find simple control 'pcm',0
lenny@lenny-desktop:~$ aplay -l
graphic 545 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC283 Analog [ALC283 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC283 Digital [ALC283 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
graphic 545 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@panix.com>
To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>;
<debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2023 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble
It may be running pcm in that case you might try amixer Set PCM 100%
unmute
also check /var/lock/alsa for any files ending in .lck and then try to
configure and if you get sound alsactl store.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that
order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:
> Hi Group,
> I have a desktop with Ubuntu 18.something, and I don't want to upgrade the
> dist because a newer Python will break my Chirp program that I use for
> programming my radios.
> But it boots, and I can SSH into it, but I get no audio.
> I test it several ways,
> aplay file-name
> speaker-test
> espeak test
> I tried:
> amixer sset Master 100% unmute
> and
> amixer sset Headphone 100% unmute
> and no errors, but still no audio.
> It boots up to the desktop, and I tried to manually run orca, but it must
> already be running.
> This is a 64 bit desktop with 8 GB of RAM.
> It has two headphone jacks, and I'm testing both of them, in case the
> audio
> decided to switch outputs, which it has done before.
> Does anyone have any other ideas I can try?
> Alsamix is not too screenreader friendly via ssh.
> I don't know if I installed something recently that did this, like maybe a
> ham radio program.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Glenn
>
>
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