On Ma, 11 sep 12, 21:56:44, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:10:01 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > What does > > > > speaker-test -c2 -t wav > > > > do (both as user and root)? > > It works! Both as root and as a normal user. Amazing!
At least you know that the alsa layer is ok. > So why does aplay fail? It's a mystery to me! Please post the output of 'aplay -l' and 'aplay -L'. > > Assuming you really want to keep Gnome there are several workarounds for > > that: > > - just remove the gnome-core metapackage and keep all other dependencies > > - equivs (either build a replacement metapackage or a replacement > > dependency) > > - dpkg --force-depends > > As much as I dislike pulseaudio (I wish everyone would use alsa), it is > evident that this is the future direction of Debian; so I would like to > find a way for pulseaudio and alsa to peacefully coexist if possible. Since ALSA is the driver level pulseaudio has to coexist with it ;) However, I don't see why you think Debian is so much into pulseaudio. It just happens to be used by the currently[2] default desktop. [1] I have experimented with pulseaudio to reroute audio to a different machine via the network, but the setup seemed too complicated and fragile for me so I just use the laptop's speakers for the occasional youtube video or so. [2] There is a discussion going on on debian-devel whether it will be kept as default. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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