Re: getting sound in Sid
On Sun 24 Jan 2016 at 14:29:57 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> 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.
pulseaudio is essential to have audio with the current Skype. It is
doubtful pavucontrol is absolutely necessary. pulseaudio can be
controlled from the command line.
> 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.
systemd is not shown as a dependency of pavucontrol. What *are* you
talking about?
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