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? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com