Re: audio restore functionaility
On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote:
> On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> > On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote:
> > >I'm new to Debian.
> > >
> > >Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k.
> > >
> > >Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package
> > >manager) a speech recognition software (pocketsphinx). I removed
> > >it without ever having used it.
> > >
> > >Now the audio does not work. Neither in the browser (iceweasel)
> > >nor with VLC media player.
> > >
> > >Is there a straight-forward "restore" function for the relevant
> > > software?
> > >
> > >William
> >
> > Yes. You can switch to root, purge then reinstall the sound package
> > (pulseaudio). However, I'd first recommend making sure the output
> > volume wasn't simply turned down.
> >
> > If it wasn't, I'd then suspect that pocketsphinx didn't restore the
> > old settings when you removed it. Try running LC_ALL=C.
>
> The solution to every audio problem is not purging pulseaudio. Have you
> looked at the software in question? It depends on libc6 and three
> libraries. Installing the package doesn't alter anything as there are
> no maintainer scripts run. Purging it does not mute previosly unmuted
> channels (as shown by alsamixer).
>
> Installing pocketsphinx and now having non-working audio are unrelated.
It is possible, is it not, that pocketshinx mutes something by default and
hasn't unmuted it?
Lisi
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