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