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LMDE '12 regression => No audio/sound/volume control

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 1:15 pm
by tkteun
I recently upgraded my LMDE machine to the newest version and I didn't do anything about the 121 obsolete packages which seem to be normal on Mint machines. I also installed the XFCE desktop since the other default desktop is just ridiculous.

Now I don't have any mixer program left.
There's no sounds configuration anymore (system sounds etc.)
There's no audio configuration tool (default cards etc.)
There's no way of configuring the mixer which is linked to my volume buttons and AVRCP.

The only audio I can get is by using programs like VLC which allow me to circumvent Pulseaudio and let me select which channel actually works.

Tips like pavucontrol or the rather similar 'gnome-control-center sound' started from CLI of course, only show "Internal Audio; 1 in / 1 out; Duplex" which isn't physically linked to any of my three onboard Ac'97, nor any of my six Creative SB channels. Or any channel from my TV card or CCTV card.

My problems seem rather similar to this 4 year old bug and I refuse to believe I'm going to have to manually look up which card I want to use and put it in /etc/pulse/client.conf or any of the ~/.pulse/ jungle files.

I've never had any of these problems before the upgrade.

Is Pulseaudio new on LMDE?
Isn't there any GUI way of configuring Pulseaudio?

Re: LMDE '12 regression => No audio/sound/volume control

Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:12 pm
by äxl
Your snotty tone let's me do this: http://letmebingthatforyou.com/?q=pulseaudio+xfce ;)
What's so bad about some Gnome or MATE dependencies? I hope you haven't removed gksu!

And what is "121 obsolete packages"?

Your chips are recognized correctly, right?

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cat /proc/asound/cards

Re: LMDE '12 regression => No audio/sound/volume control

Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 9:44 pm
by mungoman
You probably aren't in the audio group anymore.
That happened to me after an update.
Open up the "User and Groups" admin gui, highlight yourself, click on "Advanced Settings", authenticate, click on the "User Privileges" tab, and then check all the permissions you need, in this case "Use audio devices".
To do it from the command line....

usermod -a -G audio <username>

I also lost my membership to the mail group which meant dovecot couldn't clear my mailbox after my pop3 client downloaded my mail, so I kept the receiving the same messages over and over again.

Re: LMDE '12 regression => No audio/sound/volume control

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 5:04 pm
by koll apraas
mungoman wrote:You probably aren't in the audio group anymore.
That happened to me after an update.
Open up the "User and Groups" admin gui, highlight yourself, click on "Advanced Settings", authenticate, click on the "User Privileges" tab, and then check all the permissions you need, in this case "Use audio devices".
To do it from the command line....

usermod -a -G audio <username>

I also lost my membership to the mail group which meant dovecot couldn't clear my mailbox after my pop3 client downloaded my mail, so I kept the receiving the same messages over and over again.
mungoman, that was a great piece of information. Thank you very much. :D

Re: LMDE '12 regression => No audio/sound/volume control

Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 7:27 pm
by B2oka
mungoman wrote:You probably aren't in the audio group anymore.
That happened to me after an update.
Open up the "User and Groups" admin gui, highlight yourself, click on "Advanced Settings", authenticate, click on the "User Privileges" tab, and then check all the permissions you need, in this case "Use audio devices".
To do it from the command line....

usermod -a -G audio <username>

I also lost my membership to the mail group which meant dovecot couldn't clear my mailbox after my pop3 client downloaded my mail, so I kept the receiving the same messages over and over again.
You are the man.
Thanks