On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:08 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. >> >> 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. > > Well, in either system or user mode, root can play sound whereas a > regular user gets silent, but without pulseaudio -- spawn=no, then a > regular user can play sound. Does this give a clue?
Not really; as I said, the PA documentation clearly says that if you use system mode "You are on your own. You need to know you way around, be able to write init scripts, dbus policies, to fix up device permissions, and unix users, you need to pass around security cookies and more." I haven't ever used system-wide PA. I think of the following; try to delete both /root/.pulse and $HOME/.pulse, and rebooting (probably a logout/login should suffice, but you never know). Another thing: if you installed PA since GNOME 3.8 needs it, why are you using it without GNOME? If you use GNOME, the session manager will automatically start PA as a user for you, and everything should work. If you are not running GNOME, why do you run PA? If you are at the console without X running, just don't use PA. Use mplayer -ao alsa or whatever. Or do you want to run several audio apps in the console? Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
