Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: consolekit
Release: Ubuntu karmic (development branch) 9.10
Package Version: Installed: 0.3.1-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 0.3.1-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 0.3.1-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com
karmic/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Expectation:
After having installed Xorg, AwesomeWM, Pulseaudio, Alsa, their
dependencies and recommended packages it was assumed that sound would
have worked in Xorg.
What occurred:
There is no audio in Xorg, though from any TTY sound does work. In fact
while playing a sound file, or a video (within firefox) within Xorg I
need to log into a TTY (example, ctrl+alt+f2) to hear the sound of
either. Yet when I switch back to Xorg (ctrl+alt+f7) sound vanishes.
Looking deeper into the issue revealed that alsamixer works and gives
the full options of my sound card, but while in Xorg and through a
virtual terminal alsamixer states, "alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open
failed for default: No such file or directory".
As well when issuing the command "aplay -l" from TTY my sound card is
listed as both playback device and sub device, but while in Xorg under a
virtual terminal aplay states, "aplay: device_list:233: no soundcards
found...".
Going ever deeper to solve the issue an strace was done from both TTY
(http://pastebin.com/m7d7643b7) and from within a virtual console from
Xorg (http://pastebin.com/m468d16cb).
What was shown was that while in Xorg permission to "/dev/snd/controlC0"
was denied, but while from a TTY it was not.
If the pastebin.com postings disappear or are changed I will provide an
attachment with both results, and labeled accordingly as well.
As one can see this is for sure a bug and one that should be fixed. For
it is essential to have sound working for those users who use Ubuntu
that wish not to use Gnome, Kde, or Xfce.
I would like to thank DanaG for helping track down this problem and maco
for helping figure out how to file a bug report (both can be found the
#ubuntu+1 channel on Freenode).
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 29 00:30:39 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: consolekit 0.3.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: consolekit
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
** Affects: consolekit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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sound inaudible in X; audible from TTY
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438543
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