Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade
On Friday, September 13, 2013 10:00:03 AM UTC-4, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> The problem has arisen since I upgraded. Sound was fine in Squeeze.
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> Now, when I run alsamixergui:
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> lisi@Tux-II:~$ alsamixergui
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> I get an error box saying:
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> alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: invalid argument
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> No pulseaudia is installed.
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> I get the same problem on a fresh install of Wheezy on my husband's box.
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> on-board sound on my box: chipset Intel Z77 Express chipset
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> root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# lshw | grep snd
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> configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
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> I have no idea where to look. I have googled the error message, and get a
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> lot of hits. It is obviously a common error, but I could see no solutions
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> that seemed to fit my situation. Probably couldn't see the wood for the
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> trees. :-(
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> Two people had succeeded by purging everything Alsa related and installing
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> Alsa from upstream, though one of them had to run snddevices after every
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> boot. Hardly satisfactory, especially on my husband's box.
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> Any suggestions, please? Ought I to purge and install from upstream? In
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> general, I prefer to stick to Debian versions.
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> Thanks for any help,
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> Lisi
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I ran into an alsa issue awhile back and solved it by altering the conf file. May or may not be of any help. I wrote it up here
http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=409
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