On Monday 02 July 2018 07:27:54 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Am Montag, 2. Juli 2018 schrieb Gene Heskett: > > On Sunday 01 July 2018 22:14:45 Mike Bird wrote: > > > On Sun July 1 2018 18:48:27 William Morder wrote: > > > > Then I will send you a screenshot of my own run levels, or > > > > somebody else can do so; or you can do some research on how to > > > > set the run levels in sysv-rc-conf. > > > > > > I'm sorry if I seem to be dogging you today Bill but I do not > > > recommend messing with sysv-rc-conf. Debian and its major > > > derivatives automatically enable everything that is installed and > > > so there is no need to enable and disable services in runlevels as > > > there is in other distros. > > > > > > Nor does the runlevel change when TDE is started, and the OP said > > > that sound was working until he starts TDE. > > > > Yes, I can hear system noises before I login. Login and they become > > muted and firefox is silent, until I stop whatever FF is playing and > > issue the alsoctl restore command, which reports a can't do that, > > system is busy, but when I restart FF playing whatever, it then > > works till the next reboot. > > > > > IIRC OP did not say which > > > sound system was working before TDE and which sound system he is > > > using in TDE. > > > > Alsa seems to be the tool of choice. I have had some of Leonart P's > > stuff installed but could not make it work w/o a lot of fiddling, so > > I took it back out, sometimes with rm. Apt-get seems not to be very > > good at cleaning up the messes it has installed. > > > > Maybe I can't see the forest because of all the trees, but I can't > > see any logical reason why starting tde should mute the sound > > system, perhaps someone could clarify why that is so, requiring an > > intervention by alsactl before it works again. > > > > > The most likely explanation for his problem is that they are > > > different and that there is a problem with the sound system he is > > > using in TDE. > > > > > > Alternatively, if the before TDE sound system and during TDE sound > > > systems are the same, the most likely explanation is a problem > > > with the TDE configuration of that sound system. > > > > > > In practice there is not much difference between these two cases. > > > The place to look is the configuration of his current TDE sound > > > system. > > > > I just did, and turned off the remote access and the timeout, we'll > > see at the next reboot. Usually at about 30 day intervals. 14 days > > uptime right now. > > > > > --Mike > > What about adding that alsactrl-comman into .xinitrc or .xsessionrc? > e.g.: > Haven't tried that. Doesn't work in rc.local either > ( sleep 1m; alsactrl .....) & > > nik -- 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>