Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

["K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>]

Hi Jude,
Here's an update.
After stumbling around with alsamixer, it finally booted into the GUI and 
Orca talks.
This is, however, through the USB external card.
So on the desktop, I looked at system preferences, hardware, and sound, it 
only showed the USB soundcard, as a choice of devices.
So although alsamixer sees it in the CLI, the GUI does not even see it.
So until I find a way to have the desktop see the internal sound chip, I'm 
stuck with the external soundcard.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@panix.com>
To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; 
<debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble


Have you tried orca --replace lately?


-- 
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 Tue, 28 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:

> There are two choices when I press F6, the Intel PCI audio and USB1.
> The latter is likely the USB audio card, but I tried both anyway, and the
> audio comes out the external USB soundcard, in the terminal.
> That is with all terminal audio tests.
> But either choice gives me nothing in the GUI with Orca.
>
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@panix.com>
> To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>;
> <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 5:58 PM
> Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble
>
>
> I hate pulseaudio!  The information generated by pactl is very nearly
> useless.
> See if you can run alsamixer hit f6 select USB Audio and hit enter.
> After that a ways down the screen there's going to be lots of m's.  try
> arrowing into that mess and see if you can change those m's to u's then
> take the percentages up.  You may have to use tab to navigate those
> controls I normally avoid alsamixer and prefer amixer since it's simpler.
>
>
> -- 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 Tue, 28 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:
>
> > Hi Jude,
> > I think card 0 is unmuted, but I don't know how to select it as the main
> > source.
> > I tried
> > pacmd set-default-sink card0
> > and it did not recognize card0 or card 0 as a device name.
> > Based on the below, from pacmd list-sinks
> > I get the list, but I don't know what name to use:
> >
> > Thanks:
> > 1 sink(s) available.
> >   * index: 0
> >  name:
> > <alsa_output.usb-C-Media_Electronics_Inc._USB_Audio_Device-00.analog-stereo>
> >  driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
> >  flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
> > DYNAMIC_LATENCY
> >  state: SUSPENDED
> >  suspend cause: IDLE
> >  priority: 9049
> >  volume: front-left: 30419 /  46% / -20.00 dB,   front-right: 30419 / 
> > 46%
> > / -20.00 dB
> >          balance 0.00
> >  base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
> >  volume steps: 65537
> >  muted: no
> >  current latency: 0.00 ms
> >  max request: 0 KiB
> >  max rewind: 0 KiB
> >  monitor source: 0
> >  sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
> >  channel map: front-left,front-right
> >               Stereo
> >  used by: 0
> >  linked by: 0
> >  configured latency: 0.00 ms; range is 0.50 .. 2000.00 ms
> >  card: 0 <alsa_card.usb-C-Media_Electronics_Inc._USB_Audio_Device-00>
> >  module: 7
> >  properties:
> >   alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
> >   device.api = "alsa"
> >   device.class = "sound"
> >   alsa.class = "generic"
> >   alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
> >   alsa.name = "USB Audio"
> >   alsa.id = "USB Audio"
> >   alsa.subdevice = "0"
> >   alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
> >   alsa.device = "0"
> >   alsa.card = "1"
> >   alsa.card_name = "USB Audio Device"
> >   alsa.long_card_name = "C-Media Electronics Inc. USB Audio Device at
> > usb-0000:00:14.0-1.1, full speed"
> >   alsa.driver_name = "snd_usb_audio"
> >   device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:1.1:1.0"
> >   sysfs.path =
> > "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.0/sound/card1"
> >   udev.id = "usb-C-Media_Electronics_Inc._USB_Audio_Device-00"
> >   device.bus = "usb"
> >   device.vendor.id = "0d8c"
> >   device.vendor.name = "C-Media Electronics, Inc."
> >   device.product.id = "0014"
> >   device.product.name = "Audio Adapter (Unitek Y-247A)"
> >   device.serial = "C-Media_Electronics_Inc._USB_Audio_Device"
> >   device.string = "front:1"
> >   device.buffering.buffer_size = "352800"
> >   device.buffering.fragment_size = "176400"
> >   device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
> >   device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
> >   device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo"
> >   device.description = "Audio Adapter (Unitek Y-247A) Analog Stereo"
> >   alsa.mixer_name = "USB Mixer"
> >   alsa.components = "USB0d8c:0014"
> >   module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
> >   device.icon_name = "audio-card-usb"
> >  ports:
> >   analog-output-speaker: Speakers (priority 10000, latency offset 0 
> > usec,
> > available: unknown)
> >    properties:
> >     device.icon_name = "audio-speakers"
> >  active port: <analog-output-speaker>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@panix.com>
> > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>;
> > <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 5:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble
> >
> >
> > Try running pulseaudio in ssh with nothing on the command line, that may
> > start it up.
> >
> >
> >
>
>