<div dir="ltr"><div>I am the admin and never created that directory.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway just happy that the issue was resolved.<br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 7:42 PM Elimar Riesebieter <<a title="Linkificator: mailto:riesebie@lxtec.de" href="mailto:riesebie@lxtec.de" class="linkificator-ext" rel="noreferrer">riesebie@lxtec.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">* Milomak <<a href="mailto:milomak@gmail.com" target="_blank">milomak@gmail.com</a>> [2019-03-08 19:10 +0200]:<br>
<br>
> Found where the "problem" is<br>
> <br>
> # dpkg -L libasound2-plugins | grep 50-pulseaudio.conf<br>
> /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf<br>
> locally diverted to: /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.pulse/50-pulseaudio.conf<br>
> /etc/alsa/conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf<br>
> <br>
> # ls -lah /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.pulse/<br>
> total 12K<br>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Mar 8 18:57 .<br>
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Mar 8 18:57 ..<br>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 242 Jan 26 17:17 50-pulseaudio.conf<br>
> <br>
> # cp -v /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.pulse/50-pulseaudio.conf<br>
> /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/<br>
> '/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.pulse/50-pulseaudio.conf' -><br>
> '/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf'<br>
> <br>
> and voila, alsamixer now works. Is there a reason that the particular file<br>
> would have been diverted?<br>
<br>
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.pulse/ is _NOT_ a regularly directory<br>
installed by a Debian package. Your admin must have created it....<br>
<br>
Elimar<br>
-- <br>
Numeric stability is probably not all that<br>
important when you're guessing;-)<br>
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