Am 29.09.2011 01:28, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Tamer Higazi <th9...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> Am 29.09.2011 00:03, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Tamer Higazi <th9...@googlemail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Am 28.09.2011 23:28, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >>>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Tamer Higazi <th9...@googlemail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> Hi! >>>>>>> I have configured pulseaudio according >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> but I simply have no sound. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The pulseaudio playback volume meter shows me signal, and that the bars >>>>>>> are jumping if I playback a music track. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> alsa-plugins (with pulseaudio USE flag) >>>>>>> gst-plugins-pulse >>>>>>> >>>>>>> are installed. But I don't know what is being blocked, that I have no >>>>>>> sound output at my headphones. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> PS: the headphones are ok. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Any suggestions? >>>>>> >>>>>> What music player are you using? Did you set or modify ~/.asoundrc? >>>>> >>>>> ~/.asoundrc doesn't exist. >>>>> >>>>> I have /etc/asound.conf with these entries: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> pcm.pulse { >>>>> type pulse >>>>> } >>>>> >>>>> ctl.pulse { >>>>> type pulse >>>>> } >>>>> >>>>> for all alsa applications to be redirected to pulse! >>>> >>>> Mmmh. It's not exactly like that: If you use pcm.pulse and ctl.pulse, >>>> then you need to specify pulse as the virtual ALSA device. If you want >>>> "all alsa applications to be redirected to pulse", you need: >>>> >>>> pcm.!default { >>>> type pulse >>>> } >>>> >>>> ctl.!default { >>>> type pulse >>>> } >>>> >>>>> The players Rhythmbox, xine all with pulseaudio default output plugins. >>>> >>>> That should work. Did you check in sound settings that pulse is indeed >>>> the desired output >>>> >>>>>> What Desktop do you use? >>>>> >>>>> Gnome, latest 2.x version >>>>> >>>>> Is the pulseaudio daemon running? >>>>> >>>>> Yes! >>>>> >>>>> tamer@office ~ $ pstree -pu | grep puls >>>>> >>>>> |-pulseaudio(22833,tamer)-+-gconf-helper(22840)---{gconf-helper}(22841) >>>>> | |-{pulseaudio}(22839) >>>>> | `-{pulseaudio}(22842) >>>> >>>> Looks OK. >>>> >>>>> I have added all config files in "/etc/pulse/" >>>> >>>> I wouldn't touch the files on /etc/pulse. I recommend first trying to >>>> make it work with the files included with pulseaudio (backup >>>> /etc/pulse, move the dir out of /etc and emerge again pulseaudio) >>>> before trying anything else. Supposedly, pulseaudio should "just >>>> works". Since the first time I installed it I have never touched the >>>> files in /etc/pulse, except to change the log-level of the daemon. >>>> >>> As requested, I moved the pulse folder somewhere else and remerged >>> pulseaudio as well moved /etc/asound.conf somewhere else as well. >>> >>> No sound! >> >> Weird. >> >>>> I'm on GNOME 3, so things are a little different, and I don't remember >>>> exactly the dialogs, but instead of the Gentoo wiki page, I would >>>> follow this: >>>> >>>> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup >>>> >>>> And more specifically: >>>> >>>> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#GNOME >>>> >>>> and >>>> >>>> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#GStreamerApplications >>>> >>>> Also, in really weird cases, the ALSA device gets its volume muted: >>>> You can try to remove (back up first) /etc/asound.conf, and run (as >>>> root) >>>> >>>> alsamixer -V all >>> >>> I did, and fired all the bars up. nothing! really nothing! > > Also, in alsamixer not only set the bars up: make sure the control is > not muted (it has an "M" at the bottom if muted). You can mute/unmute > pressing the letter 'm'. > > Regards.
I opened the browser, and I hear music!!!! WOW!!! but the pulsemeter playback is death. It does, but not through pulseaudio :( so with alsa directly we have sound, but not with pulseaudio Tamer
