Re: getting sound in Sid
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:50:51PM +0100, Floris wrote:
> Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:25:20 +0100 schreef Haines Brown
> <haines@histomat.net>:
>
> >I apparently have ALSA on Debian Sid on a Thinkpad, or at least
> >alsa-mixer seems set up correctly. But $ speaker-test makes no sound.
> > ...
> Alsa is build-in in the kernel. pavucontrol is just a gui for the
> pulseaudio mixer. It is up to you if you install it or use an other
> mixer
> Floris
Floris, thanks. I understand that ALSA is present, but to run Skype I
need pavucontrol and pulseaudio. I installed skype:i386 successfully in
my 64-bit Thinkpad, but no sound. Discussions are ambivalent, but I
sense that both pavucontrol and pulseaudio are needed to get Skype
going.
However, with pavucontrol I run into trouble. I find that pavucontrol
3.0-3+b2 in the Debian Sid repository has systemd as a dependency. I had
removed systemd from my SID installation, and don't want it.
pavucontrol 1.0-1 does not need systemd. I have in hand the source code
for pavucontrol 2.0, but don't know if it requires systemd. Also I don't
know if compiled it will be compatible with pulseaudio 7.1-2.
Haines Brown
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