Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-26 Thread deloptes
Johann Spies wrote: > I had the same experience.  What solved it for me was to edit > /etc/default/timidity so that timidity does not run as daemon. > > That freed my audio-devices. Me too, but the question is how we make timidity work with alsa or pulse, without blocking alsa. I would like to

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-26 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 26/06/18 07:00 AM, Kent West wrote: This morning I removed "timidity" from the "audio" group, and rebooted. All seems well for me, but then, I don't use Timidity (to my knowledge - don't really know what it is). I do notice that a "ps ax | grep timidity" does not return anything. Try grep -

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-26 Thread Curt
On 2018-06-26, Kent West wrote: >> > This morning I removed "timidity" from the "audio" group, and rebooted. All > seems well for me, but then, I don't use Timidity (to my knowledge - don't > really know what it is). I do notice that a "ps ax | grep timidity" does > not return anything. > Seems l

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-26 Thread Johann Spies
On 26 June 2018 at 16:00, Kent West wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:39 AM, Borden Rhodes > wrote: >> >> > In my case. "timidity" was causing my problem. Within X, I did a "sudo >> > kill >> >> Yessir. The timidity update on 19 June messed up my sound, too. After >> a frustrating few hours of

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:00:16 -0500 Kent West wrote: Hello Kent, >seems well for me, but then, I don't use Timidity (to my knowledge - >don't really know what it is). A MIDI/MOD file player. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediat

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-26 Thread Kent West
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:39 AM, Borden Rhodes wrote: > > In my case. "timidity" was causing my problem. Within X, I did a "sudo > kill > > timidity", and immediately my Volume control on the pane of KDE's Plasma > > desktop changed, and the volume control slider produced test clicks. I > > tried

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-26 Thread Borden Rhodes
> In my case. "timidity" was causing my problem. Within X, I did a "sudo kill > timidity", and immediately my Volume control on the pane of KDE's Plasma > desktop changed, and the volume control slider produced test clicks. I > tried purging timidity, but it seems to want to take half of KDE with i

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-25 Thread deloptes
Kent West wrote: > When I run "aplay -L | grep default", for root I get: > > default:CARD=PCH > sysdefault:CARD=PCH > > For a normal user I get: > > default > sysdefault:CARD=PCH on my stretch box I run aplay -L | grep default default sysdefault:CARD=PCH so it does not seem to be user/root i

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-25 Thread Kent West
Got it! (Partially. Will finish getting it tomorrow, maybe.) >From https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1517726: Found the issue with great support. > > Code: > > echo autospawn = no >> ~/.pulse/client.conf > > killall pulseaudio > > LANG=C pulseaudio - > ~/pulseverbose.log 2>&1 >

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-25 Thread Kent West
I've spent two days on this, and have tried everything I can find and think of. Very frustrating. On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Kent West wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Kent West wrote: > >> In a TTY (no X), "alsa-bat -P default" plays a tone for root, and no >> sound for a no

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-25 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Kent West wrote: > In a TTY (no X), "alsa-bat -P default" plays a tone for root, and no sound > for a normal user. > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Kent West wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Kent West wrote: >> >>> >>> > So audio works for

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-25 Thread Kent West
In a TTY (no X), "alsa-bat -P default" plays a tone for root, and no sound for a normal user. On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Kent West wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Kent West wrote: > >> >> > So audio works for root, but not for my normal user (even after being added

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-25 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Kent West wrote: > > > So audio works for root, but not for my normal user (even after being >>> added >>> > to the "audio" group). >> >> I just ran "cat syslog | grep alsa" and got this: systemd-udevd[413]: Process '/usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/run/alsa restore

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-25 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:57 PM, Kent West wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Brian wrote: > >> On Mon 25 Jun 2018 at 09:58:29 -0500, Kent West wrote: >> >> >> > So audio works for root, but not for my normal user (even after being >> added >> > to the "audio" group). >> >> > > In t

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-25 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Brian wrote: > On Mon 25 Jun 2018 at 09:58:29 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > I recently dist-upgraded my Buster/Sid box, and lost: > > - networking temporarily (got it back, but not exactly sure how) > > -video (black screen; no obvious local terminal response,

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-25 Thread Brian
On Mon 25 Jun 2018 at 09:58:29 -0500, Kent West wrote: > I recently dist-upgraded my Buster/Sid box, and lost: > - networking temporarily (got it back, but not exactly sure how) > -video (black screen; no obvious local terminal response, but could ssh > in; it's an NVidia bug apparently, worked

Re: Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-25 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:58 AM, Kent West wrote: > I recently dist-upgraded my Buster/Sid box, and lost: > > - audio as a normal user. > > ... have no audio when I log into X as a normal user (or at least as my > normal user; now that I think about it, I'll try as a different normal user > as

Audio - Dummy Output, except for root

2018-06-25 Thread Kent West
I recently dist-upgraded my Buster/Sid box, and lost: - networking temporarily (got it back, but not exactly sure how) -video (black screen; no obvious local terminal response, but could ssh in; it's an NVidia bug apparently, worked around with "slab_common.usercopy_fallback=y" added to kernel pa