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. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
