Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled

Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:07 PM,  <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 7:56 PM,  <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi.  I have not used pulseaudio at all, but with gnome 3.8 I guess it
> >> > must be there, but when I try to play a sound using either mplayer from
> >> > the console which works fine withalsa, or even aplay, I get no sound
> >> > unless I change the /etc/pulse/client.conf to spawn=no .
> >>
> >> Unless you have a very specific setup, you should not need to touch
> >> the files under /etc/pulse. Also, are you trying to run the
> >> system-wide PulseAudio service? Because that's basically wrong:
> >>
> >> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/WhatIsWrongWithSystemWide
> >>
> >> > Anyway to fix this?
> >>
> >> If you are running PA as a normal user (as you should), then perhaps
> >> the per-application volume for MPlayer is muted. While playing
> >> something with MPlayer, go to Settings -> Sound, then select the
> >> Applications tab, and there should be a volume slider for all the
> >> applications using audio. Just adjust as necessary.
> >
> > I got no sound when pa was run as a user.  I am running these apps from
> > the console -- apps such as aplay or anything which uses alsa.  So I
> > can't adjust any volumes under gnome, etc.
>
> OK, then the real problem is that you had no sound with PA running
> with your user. Get back to user mode (check out the link I posted;
> almost *nobody* should run PA in system mode), and check the volume
> levels (again, Settings->Sound). Perhaps it was something as simple as
> a muted check box.

But I don't have gnome even running, so I can't access any of that -- I
am just using apps from the text console.  Is there a text file or
something I can deal with?


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