ALSA I am familiar with. btw, I am using a GUI client here (Apple Mail) to read this list. I also have Vinux installed on a secondary machine here. And yes, Pulse-audio is an overcomplicated POS that can malfunction in ways that make it a real bear to troubleshoot. anyway, I will look into it. -eric On Sep 23, 2017, at 12:30 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 20:47:03 -0700 > Eric Oyen wrote: > >> um yeah. trying to get sound running under an OS without any kind of >> speech output or braille support can be a real trick. Not sure how I >> can do that without a sighted assistant (and no one in my pad >> qualifies as anything other than an appliance operator). > > I have an idea that might work. > > First, get rid of Pulseaudio. That thing has too many hard to find > mutes, and its interrelationships with ALSA and hardware are too > convoluted to easily troubleshoot. Run pure ALSA, using apulse for the > occasional thing that *must* have pulseaudio. > > Now, exclusively use aplay, arecord, amixer and sound-test, every one > of which is CLI, to configure your sound. I'm assuming you have some > sort of way to read terminal output, because you participate on this > mailing list. > > If you absolutely, positively refuse to get rid of Pulseaudio, the > following article might (or might not) be of service: > > http://terokarvinen.com/2015/volume-control-with-pulseaudio-command-line-tools > > I've been using Void Linux for about 18 months, and find it an > excellent distro to do things my way, which is usually the simple way. > With Void, I'm able to do all necessary sound stuff with ALSA and the > occasional invocation of apulse. Void does an excellent job of letting > you configure your machine your way. > > HTH, > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > September 2017 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical > Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition > http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss