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On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com> 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> 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> 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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>>>>>> The pulseaudio playback volume meter shows me signal, and that the 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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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> are installed. But I don't know what is being blocked, that I have no |
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>>>>>> sound output at my headphones. |
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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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>>>> 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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>>>> |
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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 plugins. |
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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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>>>> |
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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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>>> |
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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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>>> 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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Also, in alsamixer not only set the bars up: make sure the control is |
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not muted (it has an "M" at the bottom if muted). You can mute/unmute |
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pressing the letter 'm'. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |