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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:42:15
Message-Id: CADPrc80tOiahZw8VELFmYoq-wcK=Yt-SfSfJfOYmfqiYhgRu-A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:39 PM, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:07 PM, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 >> > Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >> >
7 >> >> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 7:56 PM, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
8 >> >> > Hi. I have not used pulseaudio at all, but with gnome 3.8 I guess it
9 >> >> > must be there, but when I try to play a sound using either mplayer from
10 >> >> > the console which works fine withalsa, or even aplay, I get no sound
11 >> >> > unless I change the /etc/pulse/client.conf to spawn=no .
12 >> >>
13 >> >> Unless you have a very specific setup, you should not need to touch
14 >> >> the files under /etc/pulse. Also, are you trying to run the
15 >> >> system-wide PulseAudio service? Because that's basically wrong:
16 >> >>
17 >> >> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/WhatIsWrongWithSystemWide
18 >> >>
19 >> >> > Anyway to fix this?
20 >> >>
21 >> >> If you are running PA as a normal user (as you should), then perhaps
22 >> >> the per-application volume for MPlayer is muted. While playing
23 >> >> something with MPlayer, go to Settings -> Sound, then select the
24 >> >> Applications tab, and there should be a volume slider for all the
25 >> >> applications using audio. Just adjust as necessary.
26 >> >
27 >> > I got no sound when pa was run as a user. I am running these apps from
28 >> > the console -- apps such as aplay or anything which uses alsa. So I
29 >> > can't adjust any volumes under gnome, etc.
30 >>
31 >> OK, then the real problem is that you had no sound with PA running
32 >> with your user. Get back to user mode (check out the link I posted;
33 >> almost *nobody* should run PA in system mode), and check the volume
34 >> levels (again, Settings->Sound). Perhaps it was something as simple as
35 >> a muted check box.
36 >
37 > But I don't have gnome even running, so I can't access any of that -- I
38 > am just using apps from the text console. Is there a text file or
39 > something I can deal with?
40
41 See my second mail.
42
43 Regards.
44 --
45 Canek Peláez Valdés
46 Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
47 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México