On 27/07/16 14:18:25, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 01:57:11PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
I generally run Fluxbox but have also tried KDE and XFCE with this problem but with the same results.
Yes I am using Pulse Audio. This wasn't my choice, as such, but came with the Debian default install.
At your suggestion I tried:
$ pacmd list-sinks | grep -e 'name:' -e 'index'
- index: 0
name: <alsa_output.0.analog-stereo>
So it isn't even seeing the HDMI bit which explains why, when I run pavucontrol, the configuration tab shows a message 'No cards available for configuration'.
I couldn't try your final suggestion as I wouldn't know what to put for the name.
Where do you think I should go fom here?
I've got no immediate suggestions, but there's a bunch of stuff out there about HDMI not working correctly; using https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1009407 as a basis there's a chance:
$ pacmd load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:3,3
might do the trick. If not I got nothing...
J.
I did another search and struck lucky. It suggested putting:
load-module module-alsa-sink device=plughw:1,3
in /etc/pulse/default.pa
So I did that and restarted pulse and voila!
I now have sound back for the desktop including VLC but I still get no audio in a browser (Firefox or Chromium) with or without HTML5 or Flash.
If anyone has any suggestions for that I would be most grateful.