On Tuesday 08 April 2014 15:51:22 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Am Dienstag, 8. April 2014 schrieb Lisi Reisz: > > I have a client whose sound has suddenly died, after running well > > since the system was installed. (Six months?? A bit more?) The > > obvious explanations are user error (clicked something without > > realising) or dead hardware. > > > > She is running Debian Wheezy with TDE 3.5.13.2 on an oldish Dell > > laptop. Since I haven't got the laptop here, I haven't got its > > specs. I cannot have the laptop to work on for the moment, since > > she is using it a lot for now. > > > > All suggestions or explanations welcomed, > > Lisi > > I remember a problem with kmixer and alsa that sounds like it. > Symtom was, that kmixer did modify "maste" but "pcm"was 0%, thus no > sound. The workaround was setting "pcm" to 100% (or what ever is > suitable) using alsamixer from console. Sometimes doing this once > solved the problem, sometimes I had to put amixer <someparameter> > in rc.local. > > An other one were the "enable"-switches. kmixer did not set the pcm > on option. Doing that once in alsamixer solved the issue. > > nik Thanks, Nik. Lisi