I bought a USB headset, and wanted to try it on my AntiX box. Initially, I couldn't hear anything, but the ALSA Mixer did see it.

So, since I couldn't get it working, I installed the PulseAudio package. Then I couldn't find the USB headset at all!

So, I uninstalled AudioPulse. Now, I seem to have no audio whatsoever. ALSA doesn't even want to configure, and it seems that I have kernel files gone.. __{{emoticon}}__


Anyone know how to solve this?

Brian

Use inxi -F command to find sound card. Write it down. Then open AntiX control center>Hardware>Configure Sound system.

Mine as a example
Also, I am not sure if installing pulseaudio did not uninstall alsa for you. You should have noticed this during the pulseaudio installation process though. I think You can check though with


Good luck with it.

rokytnji wrote:Use inxi -F command to find sound card. Write it down. Then open AntiX control center>Hardware>Configure Sound system.

Mine as a example

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Audio:     Card: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24

Also, I am not sure if installing pulseaudio did not uninstall alsa for you. You should have noticed this during the pulseaudio installation process though. I think You can check though with

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$ apt-cache policy alsa-base
alsa-base:
  Installed: 1.0.23+dfsg-4
  Candidate: 1.0.23+dfsg-4
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.23+dfsg-4 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main i386 Packages
        500 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Good luck with it.

Thank you for the reply, rokytnji.
I wasn't even able to open the Configure Sound System window (it closed automatically).
Then, I was seeing a reading at start-up that the Open Sound System had"no kernel files installed." So that got me worried. --I ended up doing a full re-install, and now everything's fine. In fact, the box seems to be a bit faster! __{{emoticon}}__

Regards,
brian

I also lost my sound. Probably when I did an apt-get update. Not wanting to do (yet another) full reinstall) I just apt-get removed alsa, and then reinstalled it and that seemed to do the trick (after I'd messed around and checked hardware and software). Doh! It happened again (another update) but since I've done the apt-get upgrade the updates don't affect it as much.

This happened again, and I found myself back at this post. I'm going to add a few keywords to help myself (and anyone else) with this issue in future.

Linux, antix, debian, ubuntu, Intel 440MX, Yamaha YMF743, 82440MX AC'97 Audio Controller.

I thought it was just Windows where and uninstall/reinstall was useful, but it seems it's not. __{{emoticon}}__