New pc issues

[gacurt]

Emachines / Acer

Install using two month old iso derived from original official e17 release fully updated at time of creation. Install fully updated.

-Computer-
Processor      : 2x AMD E-300 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
Memory      : 2314MB (453MB used)
Operating System      : PCLinuxOS
User Name      : user (user)
Date/Time      : Wed 14 Mar 2012 09:32:53 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution      : 1280x1024 pixels
OpenGL Renderer      : AMD Radeon HD 6300 series Graphics
X11 Vendor      : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter      : HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
Audio Adapter      : HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
-Input Devices-
 Logitech USB Receiver
 Logitech USB Receiver
 Power Button
 Power Button
 HDA ATI SB Headphone
-Printers-
No printers found
-SCSI Disks-
ATA ST500DM002-1BD14
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH70N
TOSHIBA TransMemory
Generic- Multi-Card

Audio is listed as ATI device 1314 in pci devices, and lspci.

First problem was mixer gadget would not show up in shelf when added. Could access it from extensions in settings.

Second problem was no audio using any program for audio playback.

Second problem was resolved by enabling pulseaudio in audio settings of control center.

Still no mixer gadget.

Have not had to enable pulseaudio on any other pc.

This iso has worked fine in every other pc except for an old dell that I couldn't get any version of linux to work on.

kernel 2.6.38.8-pclos3.a64

[BJF]

An old Dell, eh? Check this:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,98825.0.html

[gacurt]

I think the dell problem was with video.

[Just17]

Install pavucontrol and see if you can sort out the sound from there

[gacurt]

Sound is currently working. I just don't understand why I had to enable pulseaudio and why the mixer gadget won't show up in the shelf.

[Just17]

Post a pic of the configuration tab of pavucontrol ......   it might give an indication

[gacurt]

Screenshots

[Just17]

Your PC has HDMI so initially it is likely that the sound streams were being sent to that sound sink.

If you do not use the HDMI connection normally, you can turn off that device from the drop-down menu on the configuration tab.
If that is done then all sound will be sent to the remaining sound sink.

I don't know anything about that E17 desktop unfortunately, but there are several Mixer apps in the repos ......  or you can use the volume control of pavucontrol to alter the volume.