Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
Le septidi 7 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit : recording doesn't work, Dos your Audioengine 2+ device even have recording capabilities? and there is not mixer in set-up. I do not understand what it means. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:57:25 +0200 Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote: Le septidi 7 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit : recording doesn't work, Dos your Audioengine 2+ device even have recording capabilities? and there is not mixer in set-up. I do not understand what it means. oh, right. ignore the recording error. however, i don't believe there is a mixer set-up because i can only play audio from one source at a time. Brian
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 18:44:01 +0200 Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote: Le sextidi 6 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Anthony Maples a écrit : In that case, you probably need the dmix plugin. I have it setup on my laptop like this in /etc/asound.conf: No, no, no! Why do people not leave the default config alone?!? The default config already has all the plugins anyone needs for normal use, including dmix for sharing between applications and plug to convert any input format to a format supported by the hardware. Only ever write a .asoundrc file if you REALLY know what you are doing. For reference, your configuration breaks recording, you can observe that with: arecord /tmp/dummy.wav you mean like this : ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:618:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave arecord: main:722: audio open error: No such file or directory There's just one problem. I do NOT have a .asoundrc file, nor do i have an /etc/asound.conf echo $ALSA_CARD A2 recording doesn't work, and there is not mixer in set-up. Brian
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
Le sextidi 6 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit : i've also seen that i can't play sound from more than one source at a time, this may have contributed to the doesn't play in iceweasel symptom since i'm almost always playing something on audacious in the background. If you do not disable plugins with a ill-thought ~/.asoundrc, the default configuration adds a dmix plugin that allows several applications to share the device. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
Le sextidi 6 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Anthony Maples a écrit : Then how do you specify the default card? It was mentioned in this very thread: 1. If your preferred sound controller is internal, you can control the order of the devices using modules options: To select the order of the drivers: options snd slots=snd-hda-intel,snd-ens1371 To select the order of the devices for one particular device (your case): options snd-hda-intel index=1,0 2. If you need a more dynamic setup, for example to use a removable controller by default, use the ALSA_CARD environment variable. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 18:34:55 +0200 Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote: Le sextidi 6 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit : i've also seen that i can't play sound from more than one source at a time, this may have contributed to the doesn't play in iceweasel symptom since i'm almost always playing something on audacious in the background. If you do not disable plugins with a ill-thought ~/.asoundrc, the default configuration adds a dmix plugin that allows several applications to share the device. Regards, how do i check what the configuration is to know that this has been done ? Brian
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
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On 08/23/2015 12:32 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 10:10:44 +0200
Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote:
Le quintidi 5 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit :
cat .asoundrc
ctl.!default {
type hw
card A2
}
So you are killing all the plugins: back to square one. This is not t
he
correct solution.
The default configuration already uses the ALSA_CARD to select the de
fault
card.
except my ALSA_CARD variable was not set. It is now.
i've also seen that i can't play sound from more than one source at a
time, this may have contributed to the doesn't play in iceweasel sympt
om since i'm almost always playing something on audacious in the backgro
und.
Brian
In that case, you probably need the dmix plugin. I have it setup on my
laptop like this in /etc/asound.conf:
pcm.internal {
type hw
card 1
}
ctl.internal {
type hw
card 1
}
pcm.internalDmix {
type dmix
slave {
pcm internal
}
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave {
pcm internalDmix
}
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 1
}
Just change the card number to match your system, and (hopefully) you
should be good to go.
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Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/23/2015 12:44 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Le sextidi 6 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Anthony Maples a écrit : In that case, you probably need the dmix plugin. I have it setup on my laptop like this in /etc/asound.conf: No, no, no! Why do people not leave the default config alone?!? The default config already has all the plugins anyone needs for normal use, including dmix for sharing between applications and plug to convert an y input format to a format supported by the hardware. Only ever write a .asoundrc file if you REALLY know what you are doing . For reference, your configuration breaks recording, you can observe th at with: arecord /tmp/dummy.wav Regards, Then how do you specify the default card? This laptop has a HDMI port as well as the standard internal audio and headphone jack. If I'm understanding this correctly, it views them as two separate sound cards: [anthony@newerLaptop ~]$ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3223 Analog [ALC3223 Analog] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 [anthony@newerLaptop ~]$ With no /etc/asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc, it doesn't play anything out of the internal speakers or the headphone jack, and alsamixer shows the HDMI out as the default audio device. I've never had a chance to test this, but I'd bet that when I try to play something it goes out the HDMI audio, which I don't use 99% of the time. Since I very rarely use my microphone, I've never noticed if it worked or not, though your test proved that it didn't work. So what would your solution be? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJV2ftcAAoJEKsIo3dIjvw7aBYIALpDsMcbPI6b31yAlanFvC7Z uM7i0ZokoZBTkmZAixts2JJgPrLA4qbLe0iTpVb1FTE8xRCLzq54b5SBKIaYijsE I3GZAjH95evNXUEs9pQ0pI1g3olxgkMjETVnJIo1nEdp85RBF2Q5+SlYIrW/fjo5 agOr5zwrnNQL0NFVYhpedmAUqrEQmXk8bw4BJMxwZU7QRt7uxK6no6uI0q4Nytqr 540D8/FlkDBIQ08dltKpFlrdgnw6ZbYlpl20pojOgnbO0D4ZE4ue8MMJ6EHSTrBo a7bWDY+FhNRY7quXPt7dbgSFWdm2UYsBLzlSM7+FXvLqiARrnxiT/0li+2zBiWw= =1zKC -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
Le sextidi 6 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit : how do i check what the configuration is to know that this has been done ? You try to read /usr/share/alsa/, and observe it is quite complex. Or you just try, getting rid of all bogus ~/.asoundrc and pulseaudio, just setting $ALSA_CARD or the order of the modules, and observe it just works, including playing strange formats, playing several sounds at once and recording. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
Le quintidi 5 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit :
cat .asoundrc
ctl.!default {
type hw
card A2
}
So you are killing all the plugins: back to square one. This is not the
correct solution.
The default configuration already uses the ALSA_CARD to select the default
card.
Regards,
--
Nicolas George
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Description: Digital signature
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 10:10:44 +0200
Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote:
Le quintidi 5 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit :
cat .asoundrc
ctl.!default {
type hw
card A2
}
So you are killing all the plugins: back to square one. This is not the
correct solution.
The default configuration already uses the ALSA_CARD to select the default
card.
except my ALSA_CARD variable was not set. It is now.
i've also seen that i can't play sound from more than one source at a time,
this may have contributed to the doesn't play in iceweasel symptom since i'm
almost always playing something on audacious in the background.
Brian
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
Le sextidi 6 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Anthony Maples a écrit : In that case, you probably need the dmix plugin. I have it setup on my laptop like this in /etc/asound.conf: No, no, no! Why do people not leave the default config alone?!? The default config already has all the plugins anyone needs for normal use, including dmix for sharing between applications and plug to convert any input format to a format supported by the hardware. Only ever write a .asoundrc file if you REALLY know what you are doing. For reference, your configuration breaks recording, you can observe that with: arecord /tmp/dummy.wav Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/23/2015 01:06 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Le sextidi 6 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Anthony Maples a écrit : Then how do you specify the default card? It was mentioned in this very thread: 1. If your preferred sound controller is internal, you can control the order of the devices using modules options: To select the order of the drivers: options snd slots=snd-hda-intel,snd-ens1371 To select the order of the devices for one particular device (your case): options snd-hda-intel index=1,0 2. If you need a more dynamic setup, for example to use a removable controller by default, use the ALSA_CARD environment variable. Regards, OK, now I feel stupid. That worked perfectly. Thanks. :D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJV2gC2AAoJEKsIo3dIjvw7I10H/i6TX7Rd+3hnWjemTxXiXM3w pz4hAK7C6zPJ+eaFWSipBFwWiDiwrMFA8hSECWkNPKQE29e0MYmFR1wauCof5yH3 CDDKNFPIo91dYAcoppRTAAaEaqVZJIu8u2w443HNtvoR7ShmFxde1n1Jn3d/goZo 3yuijBJ3kpANcGxs64sjuf/Mzt1Y7jFDyGetUNE58HvHPG7GF66b+ZYHYuyRmtkQ 6cNyKIiXBipbvx8AlHN/dQ8GDgp8UTn1Ud7OwbQJTX157vzGAbYtJVsP74BqL/Jf 7SKAWcqtFMmitWeOkJpfjQU3ZkXprAW/L5j1TEVxFaNCfOutkqWCXzSGV8uLkDk= =kRMS -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
Le quintidi 5 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit : ok. now i get it . i was confused by the link to the web-page you posted. it seemed to indicate that you could get aplay to perform the conversion by specifying the format with the -f option. clearly it can't do that. The -f option specifies what format to assume from the file if it is not specified by the header. WAVE files have a header that specify the format; obviously, /dev/urandom (although if you are really lucky you could get Citizen Kane in Matroska/Daala/Opus from it; and Daala 1.0's source code). this is very interesting, because if aplay can't convert the file format, how is it getting converted ?? ALSA does the conversion, more precisely the plugin called plug. Adding the -D hw:0 option to aplay instructs it not to use any plugin. When things work, plugins help them working smoothly; when things do not work, plugins make it harder to understand. also, i forgot to mention that I also put the following in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa/base.conf options snd slots=snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_intel options snd_usb_audio index=0 vid=0x08bb pid=0x2704 My understanding is that this will cause the modules to be loaded in a fixed order which would make the HW designations consistent. If possible, although I suspect it will have trouble working reliably with an USB device. I believe now that's unnecessary since i'm now using card A2 in my .asoundrc file. You should show the resulting .asoundrc file, because it is very easy to break things in it. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 19:10:48 +0200
Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote:
Le quintidi 5 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit :
yes i did. and the post is still in my inbox.
So not in this particular mail, yet you quoted the request for information.
You have to realize that this thread may be the most important for you in
the mailing list, but not for others.
as you previously stated :
Can you post the output of aplay -l and the contents of
/etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc?
which i then followed up with a post that had the information.
then you said:
Do you realize you did not provide the requested information that would help
troubleshooting your problem?
so i posted it again.
then, apparently you're now upset that i did that.
regardless, we seem to have gotten past that.
Warning: format is changed to U8
lol. i specify the format it's telling me is available and it tells me the
format is not available.
Read the error messages.
ok. now i get it . i was confused by the link to the web-page you posted. it
seemed to indicate that you could get aplay to perform the conversion by
specifying the format with the -f option. clearly it can't do that.
WAVE files have a built-in type, you can not override it. Use a raw file,
for example /dev/urandom.
very helpful. i didn't know you could do that. i guess aplay just plays the
bytes.
.asoundrc
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 2
}
Get rid of that.
Interesting. I absolutely tried that before, as per the instructions in your
previous post, and it didn't help in iceweasel. I suspect i forgot to restart
iceweasel.
so now that _does_ fix the aplay problem, both on the command line and in
iceweasel !
excellent !!
this is very interesting, because if aplay can't convert the file format, how
is it getting converted ??
also, i forgot to mention that I also put the following in
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa/base.conf
options snd slots=snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_intel
options snd_usb_audio index=0 vid=0x08bb pid=0x2704
My understanding is that this will cause the modules to be loaded in a fixed
order which would make the HW designations consistent. I believe now that's
unnecessary since i'm now using card A2 in my .asoundrc file.
Thank you,
Brian
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 00:36:04 +0200
Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote:
Le quintidi 5 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit :
I believe now that's unnecessary since i'm now using card A2 in my
.asoundrc file.
You should show the resulting .asoundrc file, because it is very easy to
break things in it.
cat .asoundrc
ctl.!default {
type hw
card A2
}
Brian
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 17:33:28 +0200
Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote:
Le quintidi 5 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit :
Can you post the output of aplay -l and the contents of
/etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc?
Do you realize you did not provide the requested information that would help
troubleshooting your problem?
yes i did. and the post is still in my inbox. i've attached it again to the
end of this email.
I was trying to play something in the browser and noticed that it was
invoking aplay.
That is rather surprising from the browser, but trying aplay is the right
thing to do.
so i downloaded the audiofile and tried to play it on the command line and
got this :
Playing WAVE 'test.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
aplay: set_params:1233: Sample format non available
Available formats:
- S16_LE
another one of those problems that shows up all over the place, but no one
seems to be able to fix.
I have given information on how to use aplay to investigate sound trouble in
this mail:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/07/msg00648.html
aplay -f S16_LE -c 2 -r 48000 test.wav
Warning: format is changed to U8
Playing WAVE 'test.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
aplay: set_params:1233: Sample format non available
Available formats:
- S16_LE
lol. i specify the format it's telling me is available and it tells me the
format is not available.
You also could have searched sample format in the man page for aplay(1).
sure, transcoding the file on the command line is no problem.
the problem is that iceweasel won't know how to transcode.
interestingly _some_ audio links DO play in iceweasel, but most don't.
youtube in particular does NOT work, and i am NOT using flash.
Thanks for your help,
Brian
i have no /etc/asound.conf because I am under the impression that if i had a
~/.asoundrc i didn't need it.
.asoundrc
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 2
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 2
}
List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC887-VD Digital [ALC887-VD Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: A2 [Audioengine 2+], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
Le quintidi 5 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit :
yes i did. and the post is still in my inbox.
So not in this particular mail, yet you quoted the request for information.
You have to realize that this thread may be the most important for you in
the mailing list, but not for others.
Warning: format is changed to U8
lol. i specify the format it's telling me is available and it tells me the
format is not available.
Read the error messages.
WAVE files have a built-in type, you can not override it. Use a raw file,
for example /dev/urandom.
.asoundrc
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 2
}
Get rid of that.
Regards,
--
Nicolas George
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Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
Le quintidi 5 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit : Can you post the output of aplay -l and the contents of /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc? Do you realize you did not provide the requested information that would help troubleshooting your problem? I was trying to play something in the browser and noticed that it was invoking aplay. That is rather surprising from the browser, but trying aplay is the right thing to do. so i downloaded the audiofile and tried to play it on the command line and got this : Playing WAVE 'test.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono aplay: set_params:1233: Sample format non available Available formats: - S16_LE another one of those problems that shows up all over the place, but no one seems to be able to fix. I have given information on how to use aplay to investigate sound trouble in this mail: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/07/msg00648.html You also could have searched sample format in the man page for aplay(1). Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:00:01 -0400 Anthony Maples anthonym7...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/19/2015 12:13 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Audacious works because it allows me to select the audio device. However playing audio in iceweasel does not work. Why not ? Who the heck knows. Humorously i think that's the reason i installed pulse-audio in the first place. Been going through the usual sources- nothing works so far. Any ideas ? Brian Can you post the output of aplay -l and the contents of /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc? My thought is that you have multiple sound cards and ALSA by default is selecting the wrong one. Are other programs (ones that don't let you select the sound card/audio device) having the same issue? I was trying to play something in the browser and noticed that it was invoking aplay. so i downloaded the audiofile and tried to play it on the command line and got this : Playing WAVE 'test.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono aplay: set_params:1233: Sample format non available Available formats: - S16_LE another one of those problems that shows up all over the place, but no one seems to be able to fix. (and yes the answer is to invoke some sort of resampling, but that's not very useful if iceweasel doesn't know that) Brian
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:07:11PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:34:30 +0200 [...] i'll give it a try. again notice that this is a problem report from 3 years ago. this is a persistent problem, and almost certainly the reason i probably installed pulse audio. Perhaps I should try to get some sound out of my browser, just to check this... regards - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlXVfU8ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZ2HACfUa1jrS2IJSN2WacegKlUg8JD xJIAniNjC/0KI/Ryg643MKfhLgZ3vowy =jrRh -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:34:30 +0200 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 07:06:50PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 07:25:09 +0200 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:13:20PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Audacious works because it allows me to select the audio device. However playing audio in iceweasel does not work. Have you tried to select the sound card with alsamixer? i forgot to say, the correct audio output comes up as default device in alsamixer. This sounds bizarre. The only hit I find in the intratubes matching what you describe is here: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=20271 which might be interpreted as the browser is using slot 0, regardless of what the user chooses. I still can't quite believe that, but it might something to try. i'll give it a try. again notice that this is a problem report from 3 years ago. this is a persistent problem, and almost certainly the reason i probably installed pulse audio. Brian
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:08:40 +0200
Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote:
Le duodi 2 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit :
.asoundrc
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 2
}
With this, you are bypassing all the ALSA plugin infrastructure. In
particular, you are bypassing the dmix plugin that allows to share the sound
device between several processes without a server. If some process happens
to keep the sound device open, it blocks any other process from playing
sound.
You also are bypassing the plug plugin responsible for converting the input
into a format acceptable by the hardware.
ok.
i deleted that from my file.
it was no help.
Brian
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
Le duodi 2 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit :
.asoundrc
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 2
}
With this, you are bypassing all the ALSA plugin infrastructure. In
particular, you are bypassing the dmix plugin that allows to share the sound
device between several processes without a server. If some process happens
to keep the sound device open, it blocks any other process from playing
sound.
You also are bypassing the plug plugin responsible for converting the input
into a format acceptable by the hardware.
Regards,
--
Nicolas George
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Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:00:01 -0400
Anthony Maples anthonym7...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you post the output of aplay -l and the contents of
/etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc?
I sure can:
i have no /etc/asound.conf because I am under the impression that if i had a
~/.asoundrc i didn't need it.
.asoundrc
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 2
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 2
}
List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC887-VD Digital [ALC887-VD Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: A2 [Audioengine 2+], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Brian
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 07:25:09 +0200 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:13:20PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Audacious works because it allows me to select the audio device. However playing audio in iceweasel does not work. Have you tried to select the sound card with alsamixer? i forgot to say, the correct audio output comes up as default device in alsamixer.
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/19/2015 12:13 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Audacious works because it allows me to select the audio device. However playing audio in iceweasel does not work. Why not ? Who the heck knows. Humorously i think that's the reason i installed pulse-audio in the first place. Been going through the usual sources- nothing works so far. Any ideas ? Brian Can you post the output of aplay -l and the contents of /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc? My thought is that you have multiple sound cards and ALSA by default is selecting the wrong one. Are other programs (ones that don't let you select the sound card/audio device) having the same issue? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJV1Rh+AAoJEKsIo3dIjvw7c58H/RhQd1EFf9BoLIGkTMu/KSN8 jnT+mYvUVnOu2yQw92QwXmI+iDdWMNAoF85/gEsbFqV6PCRINcPU0510pwF/3bzm Xew6F2i/3vMgJnpURO77htkWExvNMl4re8ekRY9z5je2kl7PgnxKAUM0gjiRBH/M k0PEJ+5JPGTj7RylcEs9y+0JhzBNDldjaHDcuLWF+l4/+GRrGUjLuufKZ3xryeM0 8NSJlq7EwS+BoaWaIW/oZ80qB5baer2sL3bzU5Kq0K08K5YD7tPHVz5DszcQHeyr OuMgUdVIKAKE/vDvJCvl6KX3CUTxWTcZ+RQYoceuWHW2q/WQ3G34z/VZT0+vTPA= =YoaJ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 07:06:50PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 07:25:09 +0200 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:13:20PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Audacious works because it allows me to select the audio device. However playing audio in iceweasel does not work. Have you tried to select the sound card with alsamixer? i forgot to say, the correct audio output comes up as default device in alsamixer. This sounds bizarre. The only hit I find in the intratubes matching what you describe is here: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=20271 which might be interpreted as the browser is using slot 0, regardless of what the user chooses. I still can't quite believe that, but it might something to try. CAVEAT: I've no experience myself with that. I'm happy my browser is silent and definitely prefer other applications to play sound. Should my browser start making sounds, I'd tend to consider that as a bug and fix it :-) Regards - -- tomás -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlXVZuYACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZUTwCfebdbDN2X0B7K2/iQKxWE60R+ 61oAn0+1Nwoo5mg5dc/XNxg4QJPNIY0m =vVrM -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: no pulse audio- so now new sound trouble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:13:20PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Audacious works because it allows me to select the audio device. However playing audio in iceweasel does not work. Have you tried to select the sound card with alsamixer? Regards - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlXUEzUACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZ8UwCfRKVgPxY8/wBtLkb5VOStc0JM ODUAnRuWCBLNSgWrdLgoJm/LciBRYwhr =WWcf -END PGP SIGNATURE-
