Some questions about the LXDE system

[broadstairs]

BTW going back to the Glidepoint briefly by setting an option for TapButton1 to 1 I now have tapping working OK.

Stuart

[Neal ManBear]

The reason I suggested trying other options in PCC > Hardware is that even when the correct driver seems to be selected, something can be wrong. Sometimes just a small change can help.
You object to trying Pulse?     

[broadstairs]

The reason I suggested trying other options in PCC > Hardware is that even when the correct driver seems to be selected, something can be wrong. Sometimes just a small change can help.
You object to trying Pulse?     

Not particularly, however this is an old laptop and a supposedly light system so I dont really want to install stuff unless it is essential to get it fully functioning. So yes I can try Pulse but I was hoping someone would come up with a reason why it might (or hopefully will) work.

To my mind there is something probably simple which needs doing as application sounds work but system sounds do not come out.

Stuart

[Neal ManBear]

Try reinstalling your sound driver and installing/reinstalling ---    
esound
libesound0
gnome-audio
gnome-audio-extra
sound-scripts     
sound-theme-freedesktop.org     
soundwrapper     
pclinuxos-gnome-sound-theme (optional but who knows? It may help.)    

[broadstairs]

Try reinstalling your sound driver and installing/reinstalling ---    
esound
libesound0
gnome-audio
gnome-audio-extra
sound-scripts     
sound-theme-freedesktop.org     
soundwrapper     
pclinuxos-gnome-sound-theme (optional but who knows? It may help.)    

OK will do later today and let you know if it sorts it.

Stuart

[broadstairs]

OK I did try PulseAudio (installing the task-pulseaudio plus pavucontrol) I set it up in the control centre and rebooted however I lost the sound icon and still no sound. The Pulse Volume Control starts but says connection failed. So gave up on that and reset beck to no pulse and rebooted.

Try reinstalling your sound driver and installing/reinstalling ---     
esound
libesound0
gnome-audio
gnome-audio-extra
sound-scripts     
sound-theme-freedesktop.org     
soundwrapper     
pclinuxos-gnome-sound-theme (optional but who knows? It may help.)     

So I re-installed all that lot and installed the Gnome packages  which had not been installed. After a reboot I now have my sound icon back but still no sound when playing the selected sounds in GDM. Sound in Firefox still works OK.

Stuart

[Neal ManBear]

I'm out of ideas. Sorry.     

[broadstairs]

OK no problem and thanks for your trouble.

It is not a huge issue and wont stop me using LXDE, I was just surprised that I had this problem. Not sure now because I had some issues with the laptop (needed a new cmos battery which entailed a complete strip down to replace so I installed a larger hdd 120gb instead of 20gb) but I seem to remember that the initial install and before I did an update of the system that system sound worked and when I did the new install with the new hdd I did not test it before updating!

Anyone else have any ideas please let me know...

Stuart

[Ɗα√ϵς§]

It sounds daft, because I think you would have, but have you installed gnome-alsamixer which gives you a GUI similar to KMixer in KDE - you might be able to resolve something there?

[broadstairs]

It sounds daft, because I think you would have, but have you installed gnome-alsamixer which gives you a GUI similar to KMixer in KDE - you might be able to resolve something there?

Well no I have not, but now I have. Sadly it has a bug that I have come up with and I dont think there is a fix, at least not that I've found yet. See here, my problem is the invalid char in the directory name. I'm still searching round to see if I can find another reference more applicable but so far not found anything.

Stuart

[Neal ManBear]

Try alsamixer-gui.     

[broadstairs]

Yes I found that referred to elsewhere. I have discovered now that some sounds do work not that the mixer made any difference to the ones not working. I'm not that bothered now as I do have application sounds and  some system sounds.

Stuart