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.
>
> Also, from the console you can use pactl. To play a sample sound there, do:
>
> pactl play-sample 0
> pactl play-sample 1
>
> It should work. You can also set the volume from here:
>
> pactl set-sink-volume 0 "100%"
>
> 0 is usually the "master" volume.
>
> Check out man pactl.
Well, in either system or user mode, root can play sound whereas a
regular user gets silent, but without pulseaudio -- spawn=no, then a
regular user can play sound. Does this give a clue?
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