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#26 Re: Installation » No Sound in Devuan-ascii » 2020-05-11 14:17:25
Well time has moved on and I finally got the sound to work in my ASCII setup.. Finally. Lots of work though in reaching that point..
The first thing I did was to remove pulseaudio. I used the remove command plus purge. I got rid of pulseaudio and all its traces..
That was my starting point since I wanted to go with ALSA alone.
Next I ran aplay -L
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3861 Analog [ALC3861 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Next I made up a file ... /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf, with the following info installed. Which is taken from the aplay listing above:
Alsa.conf:
options snd-hda-intel id=Intel index=0
options snd_hda_codec_nvidia id=NVIDIA index=1
I rebooted and suddenly I had sounds. I guess with only alsa running it. As pulseaudio is now gone.
I also found that 'xterm -e alsamixer' run on a terminal sure gives and nice/easy look at what is happening.
I guess the biggest thing that worked for me was to get the system to see my Nvidia card. It was not really doing that or it wasnt doing that to hear the audio.
This arrangement with ALSA worked. So why consider anything else.
I know that people have said pulseaudio is needed for purer sound? I guess for people with complicated audio systems. But for me I have one speaker. Not very complicated. So it should be fine for me. At least I now have sound. And any kind of sound right now is a great success.
I want to thank all those who tried to help me. And who really did help as it made me look closer, and harder at what I was doing. And now if there is a way to add to what I have that would be great.
I am running ASCII version of Devuan which is really nice. I want to keep it, and the sound now adds to it comfort and easy style..
Thanks everyone..
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
#27 Re: Installation » No Sound in Devuan-ascii » 2020-05-10 22:47:58
Thanks for the reply . ILars.
I installed that alsamixer but it does no good as I dont have any sound.
I am beginning to wonder that no one has sound while running ascii.
I have tried other releases and windows 10 as well, and the sound system I have here runs great. No problem.
Its just this ASCII release that is giving me a hard time.
Thanks anyway guys. Lots of thanks for all that you have offered. But no luck so far.
#28 Other Issues » emacs on ASCII » 2020-05-10 22:41:21
- ve1drg
- Replies: 3
I installed emacs on ascii, which was a new installation and I see the following error when I use it. I am still able to use it. But wondering how to fix this error?
(emacs:15478): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
#29 Re: Installation » Type size too small » 2020-05-08 21:12:01
The screen size etc is as follows:
dimensions: 3840x2160 pixels (1016x572 millimeters)
resolution: 96x96 dots per inch
I will check on desktop enviroment files. Must be those.,
#30 Installation » Type size too small » 2020-05-08 19:37:57
- ve1drg
- Replies: 2
Wondering how I can increase the size of the text on the screen. Very small.
I am using chimeara/ceres under release testing/unstable.
It had been the correct size earlier today. But as I made changes and got upgrades/updates etc... suddently I have very small type..
#31 Re: Installation » No Sound in Devuan-ascii » 2020-05-04 17:51:26
Thanks for the update on the audio problem with my Ascii version.
I will give that a try in a bit, and I sure hope that it will work. I love this ascii release. It sure looks and works nice. But without audio I really feel lost.
Thanks again and I will let everyone know how this goes..
#32 Re: Installation » No Sound in Devuan-ascii » 2020-05-03 19:25:34
Rolfie..
Thanks for the input. I feel embarrassed about not understanding the home directory place. Wow. But what the heck, eh?
And on top of that my interpretation of the spelling of Q A S M I X E R was wrong too.
Anyway.. I have those two issues figured out. But no further on getting any sound in my Devuan-ascii installation..
I hope time will get something worked out here..
#33 Re: Installation » No Sound in Devuan-ascii » 2020-05-03 15:31:25
Thanks for the reply to my sound problem..
aplay -l gives me this:
-------------------------------------------------
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3861 Analog [ALC3861 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
aplay -L | grep -A2 default gives me this:
-------------------------------------
default
Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
null
--
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
HDA Intel PCH, ALC3861 Analog
Default Audio Device
As to ~/.asoundrc file this is unknown to me. Where does this go.
And I tried to install gas mixer but can't find it anywhere.
I will continue to examine the results of these queries. Maybe there is a way to get sound after all.
What/where is CARD=PCH. Can it be adjusted? Does it need to be installed?
#34 Installation » No Sound in Devuan-ascii » 2020-05-02 18:31:26
- ve1drg
- Replies: 11
I have just installed Devuan-ascii and it went very well, but I have no sound at all.
Nothing.. very quiet here. Not good.
The speaker system I have for this installation is very simple. Its just a Logitech arrangement of two small speakers and one larger one that does the base I guess.
It attaches to the computer with just one cable. It can even plug into my cell phone. But just one plug.
And the computer on which I want to use these speakers is a new Dell XPS 8930. All new hardware etc.. so I presume that is where the problem is.
But I have to idea how to find out where the problem is, whether its a driver I need or maybe just new speakers.
The speakers do work though as I have been using them all along on Windows 10, so I am OK there.
I have gone through the settings for sound and found a number of choices but nothing there works for me. Not a peep of sound from anything I picked..
Any thoughts please, would be great..
#35 Installation » Devuan-ascii wont install. » 2020-04-30 17:07:42
- ve1drg
- Replies: 1
I have decided to install devuan ascii . In doing so I find that the installation process cant find my cdrom drive.
And that is the drive that i used to download the full devuan-ascii package. A full 4gig.
Early in the installation process in talks about using a cdrom for drivers. And then it asks about trying to find the drive I am using to install this software. I get through a number of screens before it says it cant find the cdrom from which it is asking me questions?
It says ' no common cd-rom drive was detected.
Cannot read removable media, or no drivers..
The bottom line it says it cant detect and mount cdrom.
I have no idea how to fix this. Has anyone else experience this?
I have tried the full software package to install this software, and I also have tried the 'netinst' one as well.
What have I missed?
#36 Re: Installation » Ethernet driver needed for Devuan_jessie 1.0.0_amd64 installation » 2020-04-30 13:28:04
Agreed something newer would fix my problem but because of what others are using it was agreed we would all run the same software/version.
That is how Devuan-jessie came about. But you guys are right-beowulf works ok as far as the ethernet drivers are concerned.
I was hoping there was an easy way to get the drivers for ethernet and put them on a usb stick and then install Devuan_jessie right there.
Thanks anyway for your thoughts..
#37 Installation » Ethernet driver needed for Devuan_jessie 1.0.0_amd64 installation » 2020-04-29 20:03:07
- ve1drg
- Replies: 4
I have a new computer , a Dell XPS 8930 which has a problem with ethernet drivers.
It is new enough that the Devuan_jessie software can't find the ethernet driver . As a result I cant install this software on this computer.
I have been trying to find a way to get a driver for this installation but I am working from a windows installation hoping to have Devuan on a second hard drive. Simple to do, but since I am only operating from Windows right now - I cant do simple ;apt-get install' commands or sudo dpkg -i linux-fiormware...etc'.
So I need to find a way to get that driver on a usb drive, so I can tell Devuan during the installation process that the driver is here.
There has to be a way to do this. And I am sure someone else somewhere in this world has a driver for the new xps8930 dell desktop unit.
I have done a lot of searches for the software and it is there.... but how do i get it on this usb drive?
The network controller is 'killer E2400 gigabit ethernet controller'. And there is also 'killer -PCIe -ethernet controller'.
Also if I could run 'sudo dpkg -i *.deb'
Followed by 'sudo modprobe -r ath10k_pci && sudo modprobe ath10k_pci' .....I would have it made.
I just dont know how to get that driver unto a usb stick where I am working in windows,. But there must be a way..
Any thoughts would be appreciated..
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