On 19 February 2015 at 07:43, Michael Howard <mike@...> wrote: > > On 18/02/2015 08:39, Robert Peters wrote: >> >> On 10 February 2015 at 19:16, Robert Peters <robertpeters9@...> >> wrote: >> >> I wrote too soon :-( >> >> After reboot, my TDE has no sound at all! Amarok on starting says >> "Xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers". >> So I cleaned out PulseAudio. Uninstalled and reinstalled Amarok, >> Xine. Also installed jack. >> Copied necessary modules over from my Lubuntu, where sound works, and >> installed them with modprobe. >> But still no sound, even in VLC or gxine. Same mesage from Amarok. >> Any ideas on what to do? >> > Hi, > > Sorry, not been following the thread but has sound ever worked? Have you > tried ALSA without PA? If so, does that work? > For me, Debian & TDE have often had no sound on fresh install and it's > required me to run 'alsactl init' to initialise the ALSA sound system. You > obviously need alsautils/tools & friends installed. Once that works then PA > should be straight forward, I use it for network audio without problem. > > Mike. ALSA worked fine (except in Skype and Flash videos) before I installed PA. 'alsactl init' replies: Found hardware: "ThinkPad EC" "ThinkPad EC (unknown)" "" "" "" Hardware is initialized using a generic method which looks like it is missing some info. Amarok still complains, as above, and doesn't play sound. Robert