Hi Jude, in terminal, I ran paplay file.wav and it played like with aplay. Then, via SSH, I ran pulseaudio --status and it came back with unrecognized option --status
Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 2:59 PM Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble I've never run into any command like that. Try running paplay and see if you can play a sound file with that command. You may also want to run pulseaudio --status and see what's going on with that system. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > Is pulseaudio not always running? > Here's where I'm at now. > I plugged in a USB soundcard, and in the terminal, I can play a wav file > with aplay. > But no GUI audio. > Orca should be running, but there is no sound. > speaker-test and aplay do work now in the terminal with the USB soundcard. > Is there a command that will list all sound devices and their states with > regard to volume and mute status? > > Thanks > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; > <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 2:11 PM > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble > > > Was pulseaudio started before that script got run? If not, pactl has > nothing to control. > > > -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in > defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that > order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me why I get permission problems on the below command? > > I found this command on-line while searching for any sort of solution to > > get > > audio back: > > sudo pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle > > I made it into a bash script and ran > > sudo bash file.sh > > Here's a copy of the command and the error: > > lenny@lenny-desktop:~$ sudo bash unmutetoggle.sh > > graphic 192 Home directory not accessible: Permission denied > > > > Connection failure: Connection refused > > pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused > > graphic 545 lenny@lenny-desktop:~$ > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> > > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; > > <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 1:31 PM > > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble > > > > > > You wouldn't get the feedback since it's over ssh. > > > > > >
