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.
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