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vrgovinda

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Registered: 2023-06-14

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Re: [SOLVED] HDMI - no sound output; microphone - no sound input

Just curious: Does the sound work in devuan when using /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf from ubuntu?

Tried that too!

Doesn't work.

andyp67

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Registered: 2022-10-30

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Re: [SOLVED] HDMI - no sound output; microphone - no sound input

Hello vrgovinda,
patience be with us!
the archlinux sound documents are very excellent, the main two documents.

I am actually trying to 'configure' my new mini-pc (with it's spurious codec,) at the moment, so my input here is actually in practice say.
I don't think I am going to get sound line-out AND HDMI, I think I may have to settle for one or the other, we will see.

The last twenty-five years alsamixer has been good to me, pulseaudio is new to me.
I have apt-get --no-install-recommends install pavucontrol pulseaudio which pulls in all the required packages.
In addition I have made a folder _pa and in that folder I have downloaded the two packages pavucontrol and pulseaudio.
When I want to certainly work on alsa I, dpkg -P pavucontrol pulseaudio.
And when I want to work on pulseaudio I, dpkg -i -R _pa.
So I can keep trying, and don't have to be online.
When I do use pulseaudio I'm always in user not root, and I always pulseaudio --start | --kill
I always run alsamixer as it changes when I install/uninstall pulseaudio.
The sound file I work with is FILE.WAV, aplay in alsa plays WAV file.
vrgovinda, please keep trying with all those too many settings in alsamixer.
All this quasi pain is worth it to advance learning howto configure sound. I think!
Andrew.

vrgovinda

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Registered: 2023-06-14

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Re: [SOLVED] HDMI - no sound output; microphone - no sound input

Hello vrgovinda,
patience be with us!
the archlinux sound documents are very excellent, the main two documents.

Oh yes! I'm very patient. At the same time, excited too. No problem. I'm also loving this learning. Else, I would've settled with the pre-installed OEM Ubuntu.

With Linux, one has to be patient and that is “mode of goodness”, according to the Bhagavad-gita.
At least, I got the HDMI sound output. That's a good deal.

Thank you so much Andy. You are a good soul.

Marking this post as solved, albeit partially. [HDMI only]

Regards,

Last edited by vrgovinda (2023-08-11 13:35:15)