I am so royaly @&%$ OFF at Debian that it's not even funny...

[Eric Oyen]

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 <eric.oyen at icloud.com> 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
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