hi,

i amtrying to get my sound drivers to work
i found an article which suggested defining a primary sound device since i have multiple devices

my video card has HDMI audio but i dont use it, i use my sound blaster card also my mobo has built integrated audio.

i found a thread which suggested altering /var/lib/alsa/asoud.state

to change the line
from
snd-hda-intel index

to
snd-hda-intel index=2

every time i alter the text and save and reboot the text has been reverted. i have altered the permissions from the root.
i have used programs which are supposed to have permissions.
i have altered the permissions for the parent and all sub directories. it will allows me to alter the permission long enough to alter and save the text but after reboot it is always reverted, altered text reverted and permissions reverted!!

very frustrating
i do not have permission to change anything on my own computer.

can anybody help?

/var/lib/alsa/asound.state is created by ALSA scripts, it is dynamic and used to restore settings after startup.

Why don't you go and read from a reliable source? http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc

i was reading here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...d_is_installed

what is considered a reliable source??

and why do folder permissions keep reverting?

Emerson,

i would appreciate if you did not follow me to this post and attempt to haze me here as well.

i am seeking help, if you cannot help, which its apparant from my other post that you dont want to help, please go harass somebody else.

Reliable source is manual written by authors of application.
Wiki is more or less reliable, but it is a community effort and should be take with caution.
Forum postings are useful, but can be misleading, take with big grain of salt.

Permissions in /var are maintained by system, admin or user do not edit anything there.
See man hier, *nix systems are well organized, system wide configuration files are in /etc, user level configuration files are in users home directory.

OK, I didn't see your last post in time. Will not reply to your posts from now on. Sorry for trying to help you.

cmon now you know you and your friends were being pretty lame to me in my last post.

nobody offered any help,

seriously,, youre trying to help?? and you couldnt post on my other thread??

please


can anybody give some help? or troubleshooting steps??

pretty please??

@ emerson

i apoligize for my earlier transgressions,

i have felt less than welcomed by this community thus far.

your help is greatly appreciated.

~Frustrated User

In this thread, you don't mention it, but I gather you're still using Kali (always mention your distro and version). If you are, are you booting it as a live CD/USB, as is recommended?

If you are, then no changes are ever going to persist through reboot, unless you enable persistence. Did you do that? Tons of tutorials out there; just search for "kali persistence".

This is pretty basic stuff. Well below Kali's pay grade.

If you want to use Kali because you think it will make you "hard core", as mentioned elsewhere, it won't. It's not more or less difficult than any other distro. It's just meant for something specific. If you want to be "hard core" or "l33t" or whatever, install Slackware and start installing and configuring the tools you'd want to use that are pre-included in Kali. Or Linux From Scratch.

i am not booting live.
i did an install

I'v not seen that one, cool.

WTFDOIDONOW??? Don't know if this will help you but serching "Kali sound" hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FgMni9I374
https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...art-pulseaudio...
...

This could be for one of your other issues?:

Nevermind that last part as I just saw your last post.http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ng-4175582792/

http://docs.kali.org/category/introduction
Read More →
Read More →
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http://www.tutorialspoint.com/develo...s_practice.htm

Solved,

not 100% sure if this is what actually did it but it worked after this

apt-get install software-properties-common

...

it works now..

bur Sb Recon3d only has 2 outputs availible
Digital
Headphones.

switched to headphones, and it outputs through the 7.1 interface and while i cannot alter balance among the 7 channels, all channels seem to respond.

Appologies, i was working in between forum posts, and did not see some of the advice posted before trying this.

i still read the advised posts.

i appreciate everybody who posted

BTW - you will continue to have problem after problem with this system until you finally do as has been suggested by many people (including the Kali developers themselves), and reserve Kali for a live testing environment and switch your base system to a normal Linux distribution. Note I didn't say easier or simpler, I said normal, as in, a distro that was actually designed to be installed on a computer and used on a daily basis, which Kali is not.

What you're doing is akin to using an 18-wheeler as a daily driver. Yes it's a vehicle, and yes it can drive on roads, but it was not designed to be parked in your driveway and driven to work in rush hour traffic every morning, and forcing it into that role is going to be far more trouble than its worth. Same goes for using Kali to do anything other than booting to a temporary live session for a short bout of targeted penetration testing.

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