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