Re: Debian wheezy on Dell 7535
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 05:55:14PM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> With so much still to learn, I didn't think I had ALSA installed.
> Turned out what he did know'd was..... I did so, too, have ALSA
> installed on my system else pavucontrol would (apparently) not have
> worked.
No, pavucontrol is only used to control pulseaudio.
See alsamixer.
> Found out fairly easily back then that ALSA was, yes, in my system,
> but I sure struggled to duplicate the same effort today. It's there.
> Best as I can tell, ALSA's functionality was initially installed at
> least in part as packages libasound2-data and libasound2. Xfce4 gets
> the k/t for that default action occurring as part of its own install
> (this past week again).
See the packages alsa-base and alsa-utils
> That's why it was a no-brainer it would be *safe* to pose pavucontrol
> as a potential alternative *_CHOICE_* for any conversation that
> includes the words "- No Sound". :)
*If* they have pulseaudio installed.
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