Realtec AC'97 Audio & NVIDIA nForce3 250 on XFCE

[AlBel]

sorry i shall not create big posts.
debiman, i clicked F6 in alsamixer and selected on NVidia. not sounds
bw123, i reinstall system by advice this man. Can xfce be better? I hoped lxde or nonfree would be a sound.
sunrat, pavucontrol(playback), pavucontrol(output_devices)
I have standard drivers from CD for Windows XP and the sound is playing fine in XP.
When I open this window select Nvidia or Beеp, and reopen then the data disappears. So it should be?
Maybe I should install an older version of debian:?:

[debiman]

my russian is not so good, and i don't use pulsaudio, but i can't help but notice that on these 2 images there's a speaker with a red cross, which means something is muted:
http://dt.iki.fi/stuff/forums/M9Gu5y9.png
http://dt.iki.fi/stuff/forums/psn1jxX.png
tried clicking that? what happens then?

[AlBel]

debiman, i tried to click - nothing happens, only the strip changes color on grey. In windows(xp,vista,seven) red cross means that no driver is installed for example.

[debiman]

debiman, i tried to click - nothing happens, only the strip changes color on grey.

ah, i see. i think i misinterpreted the meaning of this.
like i said, i have no clue what is written there, and i don't use pulseaudio myself.
well, it was worth a try.

[AlBel]

[sunrat]

Those buttons should not show muted. That needs to be resolved. Some more ideas:
1. Run this command in a terminal -

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pactl set-sink-mute 0 0

If that doesn't work:
2. I got one idea from https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?titl ... E_Desktop) :
Adapted a bit - create a hidden file in your $HOME called .asoundrc (it says to do it in /etc but ~/.asoundrc does the same thing but for user only and overrides the global one)
Copy and paste this exactly and reboot:

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pcm.pulse {
   type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
   type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
   type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
   type pulse
}

If that fails, remove that file and use the sledgehammer approach - remove pulseaudio completely.

[AlBel]

sunrat, did as you wrote - not sounds

[sunrat]

I'm out of ideas. Sure I had sound with my old nForce2 system but that was before Pulseaudio even existed.

Actually one last idea. Try this instead of the above code in ~/.asoundrc

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pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm hw
}

[AlBel]

sunrat , tried how did you advise - not sound
tried manually and automatically reinstalled the driver - the video is good even in the Internet browser, but there is no sound.

[Wheelerof4te]

Set up backports, and try installing kernel from backports.
https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

[sunrat]

Set up backports, and try installing kernel from backports.
https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

Hardware is from 2005. I doubt backports would help. Wouldn't hurt to try though.