On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:57 PM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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? > > I want to run apps from the console, but to start gnome when I need it.
Then do that. When you start GNOME, it will start PA automatically: you don't need to do anything. Don't try to start PA yourself; it's DBus activated. > I am running pa as a user and things are still not working, except for > the root user who can play sounds. I repeat: you don't need to run PA. GNOME will start it for you. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
