[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#748016: Bug#748016: Re (2): Bug#748016: alsa-utils: speaker-test yields only silence ...

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* peter at easthope.ca <peter at easthope.ca> [2014-05-14 11:17 -0700]:

> > Only speaker-test? Or no sound anyway?
> 
> No sound from anything.  I mentioned speaker-test only,
> to make the complaint as simple as possible.
> 
> > I assume that you don't use pulseaudio on console?
> 
> Correct.  I installed alsa.

So you might have to check your pulseaudio mixer (i.e. pavucontrol)
settings.

Or you can start alsamixer from a xterm, change the soundcard
directly via F6 to your sound chip (should be the second entry) and
check sound again. Please make sure that no output control is muted.

> > Hmmm, is this a new installation or is it just a regression after
> > the update to 7.5?
> 
> I installed the system about three weeks ago from a Wheezy netinstall
> CD burned from the image retrieved about the beginning of April.
> Then updated Wheezy from a secondary repository.  I haven't
> intentionally regressed.  Updated with aptitude this morning. It
> might be 7.5 now.  How can one know?

run
$ lsb_release -a

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