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Re: No Sound - Puzzle



A lot of folks (myself included) manage just fine without
pulseaudio.  ALSA is already complicated and capable enough for them.
Some sophisticated users route pulseaudio through JACK, so
that the pulseaudio daemon doesn't grab exclusive use of the ALSA device. 

Good luck!

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 06:21:07PM -0500, Thomas George wrote:
> From a terminal run alsamixer, f6, select Xonar DSX
> 
> On another terminal cd to a directory of ogg files, start a playback of a
> file.
> 
> Oh the desktop start pulse audio volume control. Monitor shows strong active
> playback levels
> 
> Switch to terminal running alsamixer, mute master front which mutes all
> output channels.
> 
> Return to desktop pulse audio volume control, monitor continues to show
> strong active playback levels even though alsamixer thinks all output
> channels muted!
> 
> The music goes down and around and comes out nowhere!
> 
> 
> On 11/15/2017 03:35 PM, Thomas George wrote:
> >I just installed an Asus Xonar DSX pcie card. Alsamixer recognizes it and
> >PulseAudio Volume Control show a strong signal level during playback but
> >no sound from the speakers. The system works with the onboard Nvidia
> >sound, no problems.
> >
> >I assume the problem is a missing linux driver for the Xonar but I have
> >seen claims that Xonar works out of the box on linux systems.
> >
> >Does anyone have this working?
> >
> >I am using Debian Stretch.
> >
> >
> >
> 

-- 
Joel Roth
  


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