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Noel

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[SOLVED] RefractaOS - (Devuan Daedalus Based) Fresh Install - No Sound?

RefractaOS - (Devuan Daedalus Based) Fresh Install - No Sound?
I cannot make head nor tail of the Alsa Mixer! HELP!

fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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Re: [SOLVED] RefractaOS - (Devuan Daedalus Based) Fresh Install - No Sound?

Normally the audio works. in alsamixer, use arrow keys to move left/right to select a channel, m to mute/unmute a channel, pgup/pgdown to raise/lower volumes. ESC to exit when you're done.

Post the output of aplay -l Let's see how many audio devices you have and what they are.

Noel

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Re: [SOLVED] RefractaOS - (Devuan Daedalus Based) Fresh Install - No Sound?

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

ralph.ronnquist

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From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS

Registered: 2016-11-30

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Re: [SOLVED] RefractaOS - (Devuan Daedalus Based) Fresh Install - No Sound?

Since the analog out put is on your card 1, you should create a file
/etc/alsa/conf.d/00-defaults.conf with the following line:

defaults.pcm.!card 1

Noel

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Re: [SOLVED] RefractaOS - (Devuan Daedalus Based) Fresh Install - No Sound?

Thank you Fred & Ralph. However Ralph, I could not create the file < /etc/alsa/conf.d/00-defaults.conf >
$ ls -al /etc/alsa
ls: cannot access '/etc/alsa': No such file or directory
???
Should I just create empty < alsa > & < conf.d > directories?

igorzwx

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Re: [SOLVED] RefractaOS - (Devuan Daedalus Based) Fresh Install - No Sound?

➤ apt-file find /etc/alsa/conf.d
...
libasound2-plugins: /etc/alsa/conf.d/10-rate-lav.conf
libasound2-plugins: /etc/alsa/conf.d/10-samplerate.conf
libasound2-plugins: /etc/alsa/conf.d/10-speexrate.conf
libasound2-plugins: /etc/alsa/conf.d/50-arcam-av-ctl.conf
libasound2-plugins: /etc/alsa/conf.d/50-jack.conf
libasound2-plugins: /etc/alsa/conf.d/50-oss.conf
libasound2-plugins: /etc/alsa/conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf
libasound2-plugins: /etc/alsa/conf.d/60-a52-encoder.conf
libasound2-plugins: /etc/alsa/conf.d/60-speex.conf
libasound2-plugins: /etc/alsa/conf.d/60-upmix.conf
libasound2-plugins: /etc/alsa/conf.d/60-vdownmix.conf
libasound2-plugins: /etc/alsa/conf.d/98-usb-stream.conf
libasound2-plugins: /etc/alsa/conf.d/99-pulseaudio-default.conf.example
...

See also:
_https://www.commandlinux.com/man-page/man1/apt-file.1.html

Last edited by igorzwx (Today 01:59:50)

ralph.ronnquist

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Re: [SOLVED] RefractaOS - (Devuan Daedalus Based) Fresh Install - No Sound?

Yes, create the directory pathname

# mkdir -p /etc/alsa/conf.d

if it doesn't exist.

in fact, if you look into /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf which is the main configuration file for alsa, you will see that it looks for configuration files in many places. I suggested /etc/alsa/conf.d/ because that is commonly used by many packages and especially bluez-alsa-utils (which provides a virtual sound card for playback and capture via bluez bluetooth mediation).

Some people prefer using ~/.asoundrc instead, since that is written/editable by the non-root end user. However it will also only be used by that non-root end user and not shared among all users.

Noel

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Re: [SOLVED] RefractaOS - (Devuan Daedalus Based) Fresh Install - No Sound?

THANK YOU EVERYONE! I now have sound! Yippee! 'b'ye ! - Noel