Sound problem no speakers

[Patton Echols]

On 03/25/2011 12:00 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Patton Echols<p.echols at comcast.net>  wrote:
> :
>> Thanks for the suggestion.  Seemed like such a good idea.  Apparently
>> something is overriding the saved info because the changes still do not
>> survive reboot.  I also discovered in the process "amixer" a CLI utility
>> that will allow you to make and show sound settings.
>>
> Have you removed the pulseaudio drivers from the system?  Although
> some people here swear by it, I have found that ALSA by itself works
> where ALSA + Pulse = silence.  This could be related.
>

I have not.  I guess I don't really know what pulse is supposed to do . . .


> Drawback - you lose the panel volume control (which is a Pulse
> entity), but there's a perl script by Sonal Santan called volumekey.pl
> that subs nicely for it, and it works while the screensaver is running
> (and your computer locked) without kicking the screensaver or waiting
> for it.
>

Do you know if that control works with laptop function keys that control 
volume?

Thanks for the thoughts,

--PE