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

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

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.

Also, from the console you can use pactl. To play a sample sound there, do:

pactl play-sample 0
pactl play-sample 1

It should work. You can also set the volume from here:

pactl set-sink-volume 0 "100%"

0 is usually the "master" volume.

Check out man pactl.

Regards.
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Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México