On Sunday 12 July 2015 18:23:29 Felix Miata wrote:
> E. Liddell composed on 2015-07-12 06:57 (UTC-0400):
> > On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 06:06:22 -0400 Felix Miata wrote:
> >> Last Debian I installed on any of my own systems was Etch, until Friday,
> >> when I did a network minimal, then added TDE. In a broad sense, only one
> >> thing bothers me at this point, no sound. In openSUSE we have YaST2 for
> >> such things as sound configuration, but in Jessie/TDE I haven't found
> >> anything that helps. Trying to use Synaptic to figure it out isn't
> >> working, because its scroller is worthless - it has no buttons to scroll
> >> only a line at atime, and the scrollbar hopelessly overshoots trying to
> >> drag or click. TCC's Sound & Multimedia isn't producing any sound or any
> >> clues as to why not. SMplayer plays video but without sound. Is there
> >> some TDE tool not yet installed that can configure sound, or do I need
> >> some as yet undiscovered Debian tool to make sound work?
> >> https://wiki.debian.org/ALSA didn't seem to help at all. :-(
> >
> > Invoke alsamixer from the command line and check to make sure that
> > nothing's muted and it's pointing at the right soundcard--don't ask me
> > why, but ALSA sometimes sets everything up muted, and it isn't unusual
> > for an HD audio device to register as *two* devices, only one of which
> > works.
>
> There must be something that didn't get installed.
>
> openSUSE 13.2/KDE4 works right out of the box:
> http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/alsamixer-os132-gx780.png
>
> Same machine booted Jessie/R14:
> http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/alsamixer-jessie-gx780.png

Someone, please - I am hopeless on sound technology.  What does "line" tout 
court mean?

Lisi