On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:39 PM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> >> OK, then the real problem is that you had no sound with PA running >> with your user. Get back to user mode (check out the link I posted; >> almost *nobody* should run PA in system mode), and check the volume >> levels (again, Settings->Sound). Perhaps it was something as simple as >> a muted check box. > > But I don't have gnome even running, so I can't access any of that -- I > am just using apps from the text console. Is there a text file or > something I can deal with?
See my second mail. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
