On Thursday 04 August 2016 16:34:57 Joe wrote: > On 08/04/2016 08:56 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 04 August 2016 02:06:27 Joe wrote: > >> I've had some sound problems in MX-15 with VLC and Trinity. The > >> issue is solved... sort of. > >> > >> This is a link to the discussion: > >> > >> http://forum.mepiscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?f=100&t=40197 > >> > >> The short version is: > >> After I installed KDE Plasma Desktop, the problems cleared up. > >> Recently, they started again. If I log out of TDE, log into Plasma > >> Desktop, log out of Plasma, then back into TDE, I have sound again > >> in VLC. > > > > Maybe this is a good time to add to the confusion. Something in the > > environment as tdm is starting shuts off the sound, and it is 100% > > repeatable here, running R14.0.4. And despite my best efforts at > > adding the fix it command to stuff that either runs as root by init, > > (rcS) or as me when I log in, sound is deader than a nail until I > > find a terminal and type in the fix it: alsactl restore. > > > > This has existed as a bootup problem for at least a year. I hear > > the big thump in the speakers as the driver is loaded way back in > > the text only portion of the reboot, which I see because I am an > > anacronism and always have a no-splash on the kernel's load line in > > grub.conf. That thump tells me the sound should work, so what is it > > in the tdm load time frame that mutes it? > > > > Whatever it should be found & killed. With no regrets. SSS theory. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Joe, please don't put your reply below anybody's sig disconnecter. You did, and that means I have to copy & paste from your message to this one. The sig disconnect is a newline,dash,dash,space,newline and no email agent I know of fails to honor it unless its some winders thing. Now I'll copy and paste: Gene, I'm cross-posting your reply to my thread in the MX-15 Modified forum so they will know that this is not exclusively a Trinity on MX-15 problem. Thanks, -Joe I never for a millsecond thought it was an MX-15 problem. I've had an aftermarket card it did it to, and it does it to the motherboard audio system on this now elderly Asus motherboard. Post away, as I see no reason to launch a machine code trace on your MX-15, whatever that is. As for trinity, ISTR I also had problems with kde doing the same thing before I jerked it out by its hair and put trinity in. And I have lost a lot less blood annually with trinity than I have with kde for the last 6 or 7 years. I like stability. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>