Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 13 sep 12, 21:39:34, Stephen Powell wrote: $ aplay -L default Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server That looks like your problem. Now what's left is to find out where this is configured and to change it. The pulseaudio package installs several files under /etc

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 sep 12, 09:02:08, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 13 sep 12, 21:39:34, Stephen Powell wrote: $ aplay -L default Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server That looks like your problem. Now what's left is to find out where this is configured and to change it.

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:36:08 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, 21:56:44, Stephen Powell wrote: So why does aplay fail? It's a mystery to me! Please post the output of 'aplay -l' and 'aplay -L'. OK, here it is: $ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
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

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:36:08AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: 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.

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 13 sep 12, 00:49:03, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:36:08AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: 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

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 09:36 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [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. I don't

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 sep 12, 16:44:03, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 09:36 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [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

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 10 sep 12, 22:13:06, Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:55:36 -0400 (EDT), Brian wrote: I use the first method with cdtool. Let's get the obvious out of the way. You're in the cdrom and audio groups. The cable is connected correctly and securely. The speakers are

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 09:33 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 09:10 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 10 sep 12, 22:13:06, Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:55:36 -0400 (EDT), Brian wrote: I use the first method with cdtool. Let's get the obvious out of

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 09:10 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 10 sep 12, 22:13:06, Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:55:36 -0400 (EDT), Brian wrote: I use the first method with cdtool. Let's get the obvious out of the way. You're in the cdrom and audio groups. The cable

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:13:06PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:55:36 -0400 (EDT), Brian wrote: I use the first method with cdtool. Let's get the obvious out of the way. You're in the cdrom and audio groups. The cable is connected correctly and securely. The

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 10 Sep 2012 at 22:13:06 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: I can confirm that my userid is in the cdrom and audio groups. I haven't checked the cable connections yet, but I plan to do that tomorrow. But the problem seems to be more systemic. I can't seem to get aplay to work on a .wav

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:56:15 -0400 (EDT), Weaver wrote: Could it be something as simple as alsactl init as root? I just tried that. Here's what I got: alsactl: parse:1655: Unable to open file '/usr/share/alsa/init/ca0106': No such file or directory -- .''`. Stephen Powell :

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Stephen Powell
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! So why does aplay fail? It's a mystery to me! Assuming you really want to keep Gnome there are

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 21:56 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: 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. Even if Brian's hint

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Doug
On 09/11/2012 09:56 PM, 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! So why does aplay fail? It's a mystery to me! Assuming

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-10 Thread Brian
On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 21:06:02 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [Snip] I'm wondering if pulseaudio has something to do with this. Any help would be appreciated. I use the first method with cdtool. Let's get the obvious out of the way. You're in the cdrom and audio groups. The cable is connected

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:55:36 -0400 (EDT), Brian wrote: I use the first method with cdtool. Let's get the obvious out of the way. You're in the cdrom and audio groups. The cable is connected correctly and securely. The speakers are connected correctly to the output of the sound card. I can

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-10 Thread Weaver
On Mon, September 10, 2012 3:55 am, Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 21:06:02 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [Snip] I'm wondering if pulseaudio has something to do with this. Any help would be appreciated. I use the first method with cdtool. Let's get the obvious out of the way. You're