On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:39 PM,  <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:07 PM,  <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>> > Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 7:56 PM,  <cov...@ccs.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.
>>
>> OK, then the real problem is that you had no sound with PA running
>> with your user. Get back to user mode (check out the link I posted;
>> almost *nobody* should run PA in system mode), and check the volume
>> levels (again, Settings->Sound). Perhaps it was something as simple as
>> a muted check box.
>
> But I don't have gnome even running, so I can't access any of that -- I
> am just using apps from the text console.  Is there a text file or
> something I can deal with?

See my second mail.

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

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