Hi, On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 02:21:28PM +0200, s.keupert@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello Everyone! > > After I recently switched to Debian I had the problem that only one Application could use my speakers at the same time, and that the microphone was not working. I tried to fix it with HowTos from the www without really knowing what I was doing. Now I have no Sound at all. Under Ubuntu 10.10 everything was working (though the micro was a bit quiet). > I'm using Debian 6 with Xfce and Lxde on a Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop. I'm afraid the problem is totally not linked to the Debian Squeeze distro, reaosn: there are similar problems for some chipsets, especially the famous Intel HDA Audio chipset in Ubuntu: I googled and found some suggestions like puting a ppa repo in your sources.list and removing then replacing alsa-base and alsa-utils by a ppa version; in Debian I'm still waiting to know what to do since those ppa repos are only for Ubuntu distro's. I notices that the problem with ALSA occured since previous distros, that's why the info/suggestions at ubuntuforums refers to 9.10 (Intrepid, but also to all the other published editions; so this ALSA problem is now appeared since long time ago but still not resolved! Note: I'm not telling that the problem happens for all chipsets, but tons of persons should probably encouter such a problem when using laptops and netbooks fitted with Intel hda chipsets. At this moment I overbridge the problem on a absurd virtual way: external speakers, there is a vol-button you can rise up. The best solution is that the ALSA gurus definitely fix the problem or that they should give us a good suggestion how to replace ALSA by Jack or OSS4, or telling us if the problem is being resolved soon! Unfortunately I can't apply lots of suggestions made by James in previous mailings, I'm a command-line user, not a Gnome user; but in essence that doesn't matter in Linux: when a system works it works in cli or in X as well, that's one of the nicest properties of Gnu/Linux! Y P ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
