> On Mon July 2 2018 03:31:56 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Yes, I can hear system noises before I login. Login and they become muted > > and firefox is silent, until I stop whatever FF is playing and issue the > > alsoctl restore command, which reports a can't do that, system is busy, > > but when I restart FF playing whatever, it then works till the next > > reboot. > > System sounds before login may be happening without ALSA so at the > moment I'm not sure whether ALSA is working before login. > > You could try speaker-test (ALSA white noise generator) to see if > ALSA is working before login (or aplay if you have something playable). > > Let's check that ALSA is set to start automatically. Do you have > > ls -l /etc/*.d/S*alsa* > > You should have a link called something like /etc/rcS.d/S16alsa-utils > to /etc/init.d/alsa-utils. > > --Mike > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- You should also try turning up all the vols. I have a audigy sound blaster. I can play amarok (front) with one vol, but smplayer uses another (center). I spent 10 mins trying to figure out why amarok played but smplayer didn't until I decided to play with the kmix settings. Also install all the alsa related controls. In case there's a mute in there. Good luck, Kate --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
