Re: [gentoo-user] no sound with pulseaudio

[Tamer Higazi]

dear Valdáez!
I still didn't mention to say thank you very much for all of your
support. It works, and that wonderfully.

I deeply apologize answering that late, I was the last days sick and
couldn't answer anyone.

Listening to music works fine, only the mic doesn't work :(


Tamer

Am 29.09.2011 16:51, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com> wrote:
>> Am 29.09.2011 01:27, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com> wrote:
>>>> Am 29.09.2011 00:03, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Am 28.09.2011 23:28, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>>> I have configured pulseaudio according
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> but I simply have no sound.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The pulseaudio playback volume meter shows me signal, and that the bars
>>>>>>>> are jumping if I playback a music track.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> alsa-plugins (with pulseaudio USE flag)
>>>>>>>> gst-plugins-pulse
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> are installed. But I don't know what is being blocked, that I have no
>>>>>>>> sound output at my headphones.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> PS: the headphones are ok.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What music player are you using? Did you set or modify ~/.asoundrc?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ~/.asoundrc doesn't exist.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have /etc/asound.conf with these entries:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> pcm.pulse {
>>>>>>    type pulse
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ctl.pulse {
>>>>>>    type pulse
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> for all alsa applications to be redirected to pulse!
>>>>>
>>>>> Mmmh. It's not exactly like that: If you use pcm.pulse and ctl.pulse,
>>>>> then you need to specify pulse as the virtual ALSA device. If you want
>>>>> "all alsa applications to be redirected to pulse", you need:
>>>>>
>>>>> pcm.!default {
>>>>>     type pulse
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> ctl.!default {
>>>>>     type pulse
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>>> The players Rhythmbox, xine all with pulseaudio default output plugins.
>>>>>
>>>>> That should work. Did you check in sound settings that pulse is indeed
>>>>> the desired output
>>>>>
>>>>>>> What Desktop do you use?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gnome, latest 2.x version
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Is the pulseaudio daemon running?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> tamer@office ~ $ pstree -pu | grep puls
>>>>>>
>>>>>> |-pulseaudio(22833,tamer)-+-gconf-helper(22840)---{gconf-helper}(22841)
>>>>>>        |                         |-{pulseaudio}(22839)
>>>>>>        |                         `-{pulseaudio}(22842)
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks OK.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have added all config files in "/etc/pulse/"
>>>>>
>>>>> I wouldn't touch the files on /etc/pulse. I recommend first trying to
>>>>> make it work with the files included with pulseaudio (backup
>>>>> /etc/pulse, move the dir out of /etc and emerge again pulseaudio)
>>>>> before trying anything else. Supposedly, pulseaudio should "just
>>>>> works". Since the first time I installed it I have never touched the
>>>>> files in /etc/pulse, except to change the log-level of the daemon.
>>>>>
>>>> As requested, I moved the pulse folder somewhere else and remerged
>>>> pulseaudio as well moved /etc/asound.conf somewhere else as well.
>>>>
>>>> No sound!
>>>
>>> Weird.
>>>
>>>>> I'm on GNOME 3, so things are a little different, and I don't remember
>>>>> exactly the dialogs, but instead of the Gentoo wiki page, I would
>>>>> follow this:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
>>>>>
>>>>> And more specifically:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#GNOME
>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#GStreamerApplications
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, in really weird cases, the ALSA device gets its volume muted:
>>>>> You can try to remove (back up first) /etc/asound.conf, and run (as
>>>>> root)
>>>>>
>>>>> alsamixer -V all
>>>>
>>>> I did, and fired all the bars up. nothing! really nothing!
>>>
>>> Really weird.
>>>
>>>>> and trying to unmute and turn up the volume on everything. When you
>>>>> hear something with any player, return the asound.conf to /etc and try
>>>>> again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards.
>>>>
>>>> I have the dumb feeling that one process is blocking the output, I hear
>>>> in my headphones the white noise of my system, which wouldn't be there
>>>> if the soundcard hadn't been initialised.
>>>
>>> It's more simple than that: if you see the bars movind in the mixer
>>> application, some sound should be made.
>>>
>>>> Is there a way to find out which applications might make use of the
>>>> soundcard right now?!
>>>
>>> Probably with strace or a similar tool; however, let me see first if
>>> I'm understanding the problem. This is a laptop?
>>
>> A usual tower machine! Core2 DUO, nothing's special!
>>
>>  If so, the sound
>>> works without headphones? The internal speakers work?
>>
>> with the headphones all the time....
>>
>> There are no internal speakers (not a notebook)
>>>
>>> Also, can you please post the output of "pactl list"?
>> Yes of course, here it is:
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=wDgy3x64
>
> OK, I'm back on my laptop. I would have told you yesterday the
> commands, but using my phone keyboard make it slightly impossible.
>
> The problem (I think) is that your sound card has digital and analog
> outputs. At some point in the future, the kernel drivers would be able
> to auto-detect which output has a cable connected to it, but right now
> (AFAIK) is not working, and for some reason in your machine pulse is
> sending the output through the digital output: that's the meaning of:
>
> Aktive Profile: output:iec958-stereo
>
> the last line of your "pactl list". The profile you want is
> "output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo", because (if I'm not
> mistaken), that's the output that sends the sound to your speakers. To
> select that profile, simply do (as your normal user, not as root):
>
> pacmd set-card-profile 0 "output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo"
>
> The 0 is the index of your card (you know is this for the line "Karte
> #0" in the output of pactl list), and the profile is the analog one,
> both for output and input.
>
> Please reboot your machine with the default config files in
> /etc/pulse, and with your /etc/asound.conf, to make sure no other
> setting is getting in the way, and try the pacmd command. Then try
> again to play music with rhythmbox.
>
> Regards.