On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 10:54:14PM -0700, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > The issue that I am having is with sound. My daughter reported that it was > not working. I tried playing a video (in Firefox) from my login and also > got no sound.
You've already gotten good suggestions in this thread. I'd concur with the advice to get rid of pulseaudio, and use ALSA. If a particular application requires pulseaudio, install the apulse package, and start that application through apulse. One thing I haven't seen mentioned so far is to make sure that each user who is supposed to be able to play sound is a member of the audio group. If they aren't in the audio group, add them to the audio group, log them out, and log them back in. Note, I get sound in Beowulf in firefox just fine with out pulseaudio installed. > 3) The 'play' utility from the sox package gives an error whenever I try to > play an mp3 file. Using 'aplay' to play .wav files works fine. What do I > need to do to play mp3s from the commandline? Do you have the libsox-fmt-mp3 package installed? Better yet, unless you have some reason not to, just install the libsox-fmt-all package. For playing music from the command line, I use mplayer. As you've discovered, aplay works too, and play should work as well once you install the necessary format support. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
