On Tuesday 03 July 2018 07:42:28 Mike Bird wrote: > On Tue July 3 2018 03:13:12 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > (1) Please use speaker-test before login to determine > > > > > > whether ALSA works before login. Make a note of which > > > > > > speakers it finds. Can you hear them all? ctrl-C to stop > > > > > > it when you get bored. > > > > And just how do I accomplish that when no one is logged in? I've > > tried /path/to/aplay /path/to/file in /etc/rc.local and its as if > > its ignored. There are other things in rc.local that do get done. > > Not there now as I took it out when it didn't work. > > You can ctrl-alt-F1 and login to a terminal. alt-F7 (or something > close to that depending on your configuration) to return to TDM login > screen. I do that so seldom, I had forgotten I could. Its been years, literally. > If aplay doesn't work in rc.local and other things do work in > rc.local, what makes you think that ALSA works before logging in to > TDE? I can hear the background noise of the sound system when it has no input. That comes on when the boot log is only about half done with a pretty obvious thump in the speakers. So I have to assume the sound is usable at that point, but goes away as x starts. Don't forget that I have 50 some years in as a broadcast engineer, and I notice such things and connect the dots a lot easier than most. My ears at my age aren't great, carhart notches at 4 khz are 140 db deep, but voice frequencies are good yet. As are crickets amazingly. I wore out a couple 30-06 barrels before they started selling decent earmuffs in the 1960's. That will give anybody carhart notches. > The speaker-test will tell us whether ALSA is working before TDM > login. I'll do that next time I reboot. My system is simple stereo, left and right only, but I expect the man page will tell me how to test both sides. Thanks for the reminder. > > > > > > (2) What precisely tain't there? Sound of any kind. Even the beep of incoming email is silent until I do the alsactl restore thing. [...] -- 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>