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From: Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] no sound with pulseaudio
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:10:39
Message-Id: 4E83A47F.5010506@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] no sound with pulseaudio by Mick
1 Am 29.09.2011 00:09, schrieb Mick:
2 > On Wednesday 28 Sep 2011 22:49:06 Tamer Higazi wrote:
3 >> Am 28.09.2011 23:28, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
4 >>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com>
5 > wrote:
6 >>>> Hi!
7 >>>> I have configured pulseaudio according
8 >>>>
9 >>>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio
10 >>>>
11 >>>>
12 >>>> but I simply have no sound.
13 >>>>
14 >>>> The pulseaudio playback volume meter shows me signal, and that the bars
15 >>>> are jumping if I playback a music track.
16 >>>>
17 >>>> alsa-plugins (with pulseaudio USE flag)
18 >>>> gst-plugins-pulse
19 >>>>
20 >>>> are installed. But I don't know what is being blocked, that I have no
21 >>>> sound output at my headphones.
22 >>>>
23 >>>> PS: the headphones are ok.
24 >>>>
25 >>>> Any suggestions?
26 >>>
27 >>> What music player are you using? Did you set or modify ~/.asoundrc?
28 >>
29 >> ~/.asoundrc doesn't exist.
30 >>
31 >> I have /etc/asound.conf with these entries:
32 >>
33 >>
34 >> pcm.pulse {
35 >> type pulse
36 >> }
37 >>
38 >> ctl.pulse {
39 >> type pulse
40 >> }
41 >
42 >
43 > The link you provided also shows:
44 > ================================
45 > [snip ...]
46 >
47 > pcm.!default {
48 > type pulse
49 > }
50 > ctl.!default {
51 > type pulse
52 > }
53 > ================================
54 >
55 > Why did you leave these out of your /etc/asound.conf
56 >
57 Because Flash player didn't work in the past. When flash started, it
58 blocked the output of all other things among.
59
60
61 Tamer