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pavucontrol is your friend. It lets you configure your sound devices |
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current profile, and also set the fallback (default) sink. |
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Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey) |
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hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr |
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Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1 |
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 21:58, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I think I see the problem: the sound is getting through the digital output, |
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> not the analog one (near the end of pactl output). You need to set the |
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> analog output: pactl man page will tell you how (sorry, left the laptop at |
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> the office and I'm writing this on my phone). It's also possible to do it |
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> with gnome-sound-settings, in the hardware tab (if I remember correctly). |
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> Good luck. |
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> El 28/09/2011 20:27, "Tamer Higazi" <th982a@××××××××××.com> escribió: |
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>> Am 29.09.2011 01:27, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: |
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>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com> |
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>>> wrote: |
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>>>> Am 29.09.2011 00:03, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: |
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>>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com> |
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>>>>> wrote: |
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>>>>>> Am 28.09.2011 23:28, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: |
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>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com> |
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>>>>>>> wrote: |
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>>>>>>>> Hi! |
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>>>>>>>> I have configured pulseaudio according |
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>>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio |
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>>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>>> but I simply have no sound. |
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>>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>>> The pulseaudio playback volume meter shows me signal, and that the |
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>>>>>>>> bars |
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>>>>>>>> are jumping if I playback a music track. |
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>>>>>>>> alsa-plugins (with pulseaudio USE flag) |
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>>>>>>>> gst-plugins-pulse |
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>>>>>>>> are installed. But I don't know what is being blocked, that I have |
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>>>>>>>> no |
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>>>>>>>> sound output at my headphones. |
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>>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>>> PS: the headphones are ok. |
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>>>>>>>> Any suggestions? |
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>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> What music player are you using? Did you set or modify ~/.asoundrc? |
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>>>>>> ~/.asoundrc doesn't exist. |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> I have /etc/asound.conf with these entries: |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> pcm.pulse { |
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>>>>>> type pulse |
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>>>>>> } |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> ctl.pulse { |
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>>>>>> type pulse |
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>>>>>> } |
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>>>>>> for all alsa applications to be redirected to pulse! |
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>>>>> Mmmh. It's not exactly like that: If you use pcm.pulse and ctl.pulse, |
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>>>>> then you need to specify pulse as the virtual ALSA device. If you want |
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>>>>> "all alsa applications to be redirected to pulse", you need: |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> pcm.!default { |
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>>>>> type pulse |
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>>>>> } |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> ctl.!default { |
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>>>>> type pulse |
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>>>>> } |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>>> The players Rhythmbox, xine all with pulseaudio default output |
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>>>>>> plugins. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> That should work. Did you check in sound settings that pulse is indeed |
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>>>>> the desired output |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>>>> What Desktop do you use? |
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>>>>>> Gnome, latest 2.x version |
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>>>>>> Is the pulseaudio daemon running? |
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>>>>>> Yes! |
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>>>>>> tamer@office ~ $ pstree -pu | grep puls |
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>>>>>> |-pulseaudio(22833,tamer)-+-gconf-helper(22840)---{gconf-helper}(22841) |
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>>>>>> | |-{pulseaudio}(22839) |
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>>>>>> | `-{pulseaudio}(22842) |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> Looks OK. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>>> I have added all config files in "/etc/pulse/" |
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>>>>> I wouldn't touch the files on /etc/pulse. I recommend first trying to |
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>>>>> make it work with the files included with pulseaudio (backup |
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>>>>> /etc/pulse, move the dir out of /etc and emerge again pulseaudio) |
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>>>>> before trying anything else. Supposedly, pulseaudio should "just |
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>>>>> works". Since the first time I installed it I have never touched the |
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>>>>> files in /etc/pulse, except to change the log-level of the daemon. |
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>>>> As requested, I moved the pulse folder somewhere else and remerged |
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>>>> pulseaudio as well moved /etc/asound.conf somewhere else as well. |
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>>>> No sound! |
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>>> Weird. |
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>>>>> I'm on GNOME 3, so things are a little different, and I don't remember |
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>>>>> exactly the dialogs, but instead of the Gentoo wiki page, I would |
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>>>>> follow this: |
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>>>>> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup |
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>>>>> And more specifically: |
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>>>>> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#GNOME |
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>>>>> and |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#GStreamerApplications |
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>>>>> Also, in really weird cases, the ALSA device gets its volume muted: |
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>>>>> You can try to remove (back up first) /etc/asound.conf, and run (as |
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>>>>> root) |
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>>>>> alsamixer -V all |
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>>>> I did, and fired all the bars up. nothing! really nothing! |
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>>> Really weird. |
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>>>>> and trying to unmute and turn up the volume on everything. When you |
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>>>>> hear something with any player, return the asound.conf to /etc and try |
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>>>>> again. |
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>>>>> Regards. |
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>>>> I have the dumb feeling that one process is blocking the output, I hear |
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>>>> in my headphones the white noise of my system, which wouldn't be there |
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>>>> if the soundcard hadn't been initialised. |
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>>> It's more simple than that: if you see the bars movind in the mixer |
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>>> application, some sound should be made. |
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>>>> Is there a way to find out which applications might make use of the |
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>>>> soundcard right now?! |
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>>> Probably with strace or a similar tool; however, let me see first if |
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>>> I'm understanding the problem. This is a laptop? |
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>> A usual tower machine! Core2 DUO, nothing's special! |
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>> If so, the sound |
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>>> works without headphones? The internal speakers work? |
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>> with the headphones all the time.... |
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>> There are no internal speakers (not a notebook) |
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>>> Also, can you please post the output of "pactl list"? |
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>> Yes of course, here it is: |
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>> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=wDgy3x64 |
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>>> Regards. |
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>> thanks |
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>> Tamer |
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