Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:57 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:08 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. 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? Not really; as I said, the PA documentation clearly says that if you use system mode You are on your own. You need to know you way around, be able to write init scripts, dbus policies, to fix up device permissions, and unix users, you need to pass around security cookies and more. I haven't ever used system-wide PA. I think of the following; try to delete both /root/.pulse and $HOME/.pulse, and rebooting (probably a logout/login should suffice, but you never know). Another thing: if you installed PA since GNOME 3.8 needs it, why are you using it without GNOME? If you use GNOME, the session manager will automatically start PA as a user for you, and everything should work. If you are not running GNOME, why do you run PA? If you are at the console without X running, just don't use PA. Use mplayer -ao alsa or whatever. Or do you want to run several audio apps in the console? I want to run apps from the console, but to start gnome when I need it. Then do that. When you start GNOME, it will start PA automatically: you don't need to do anything. Don't try to start PA yourself; it's DBus activated. I am running pa as a user and things are still not working, except for the root user who can play sounds. I repeat: you don't need to run PA. GNOME will start it for you. But will that workif I have spawn=no in my /etc/pulse/client.conf which I have to have for regular apps to work from theconsole? Or is there some other way to make this happen? I don't understand the question. If you don't run PA by yourself, then it will be started only when using GNOME. And if you are using GNOME, you can use the nice sound settings dialog to get your sound. If you don't start GNOME, then PA will not be started. If you don't have sound in your console even without PA running, then is for some issue completely unrelated to PA. PA should not be started if you only log in through the console. Unless you are still running it system-wide, which is basically unsupported. OK, we will see what happens, so I have set spawn=no which should work to prevent pa except in gnome, so hopefully that should work. Thanks for clarifying this for me. -- 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
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 04:43:46AM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:57 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:08 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. 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? Not really; as I said, the PA documentation clearly says that if you use system mode You are on your own. You need to know you way around, be able to write init scripts, dbus policies, to fix up device permissions, and unix users, you need to pass around security cookies and more. I haven't ever used system-wide PA. I think of the following; try to delete both /root/.pulse and $HOME/.pulse, and rebooting (probably a logout/login should suffice, but you never know). Another thing: if you installed PA since GNOME 3.8 needs it, why are you using it without GNOME? If you use GNOME, the session manager will automatically start PA as a user for you, and everything should work. If you are not running GNOME, why do you run PA? If you are at the console without X running, just don't use PA. Use mplayer -ao alsa or whatever. Or do you want to run several audio apps in the console? I want to run apps from the console, but to start gnome when I need it. Then do that. When you start GNOME, it will start PA automatically: you don't need to do anything. Don't try to start PA yourself; it's DBus activated. I am running pa as a user and things are still not working, except for the root user who can play sounds. I repeat: you don't need to run PA. GNOME will start it for you. But will that workif I have spawn=no in my /etc/pulse/client.conf which I have to have for regular apps to work from theconsole? Or is there some other way to make this happen? I don't understand the question. If you don't run PA by yourself, then it will be started only when using GNOME. And if you are using GNOME, you can use the nice sound settings dialog to get your sound. If you don't start GNOME, then PA will not be started. If you don't have sound in your console even without PA running, then is for some issue completely unrelated to PA. PA should not be started if you only log in through the console. Unless you are still running it system-wide, which is basically unsupported. OK, we will see what happens, so I have set spawn=no which should work to prevent pa except in gnome, so hopefully that should work. Thanks for clarifying this for me. -- 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 I had the same issue here when installing
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
Kevin Thompson ph...@ewnix.net wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 04:43:46AM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:57 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:08 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. 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? Not really; as I said, the PA documentation clearly says that if you use system mode You are on your own. You need to know you way around, be able to write init scripts, dbus policies, to fix up device permissions, and unix users, you need to pass around security cookies and more. I haven't ever used system-wide PA. I think of the following; try to delete both /root/.pulse and $HOME/.pulse, and rebooting (probably a logout/login should suffice, but you never know). Another thing: if you installed PA since GNOME 3.8 needs it, why are you using it without GNOME? If you use GNOME, the session manager will automatically start PA as a user for you, and everything should work. If you are not running GNOME, why do you run PA? If you are at the console without X running, just don't use PA. Use mplayer -ao alsa or whatever. Or do you want to run several audio apps in the console? I want to run apps from the console, but to start gnome when I need it. Then do that. When you start GNOME, it will start PA automatically: you don't need to do anything. Don't try to start PA yourself; it's DBus activated. I am running pa as a user and things are still not working, except for the root user who can play sounds. I repeat: you don't need to run PA. GNOME will start it for you. But will that workif I have spawn=no in my /etc/pulse/client.conf which I have to have for regular apps to work from theconsole? Or is there some other way to make this happen? I don't understand the question. If you don't run PA by yourself, then it will be started only when using GNOME. And if you are using GNOME, you can use the nice sound settings dialog to get your sound. If you don't start GNOME, then PA will not be started. If you don't have sound in your console even without PA running, then is for some issue completely unrelated to PA. PA should not be started if you only log in through the console. Unless you are still running it system-wide, which is basically unsupported. OK, we will see what happens, so I have set spawn=no which should work to prevent pa except in gnome, so hopefully that should work. Thanks for
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
On 29/04/2013 11:20, Kevin Thompson wrote: I had the same issue here when installing pulseaudio. I don't use GNOME, so that does take part of the equation away. The problem was solved by changing permissions to /dev/snd and it's containing files. After chmodding /dev/snd/* to 666, I was able to play sounds as a normal user. In the Gentoo guide, it mentions this, and it also mentions taking your user out of the audio group if you're currently in it. Please see http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PulseAudio#Root_can_play_sound.2C_other_users_cannot for more detailed information. Why not rather configure udev to make /dev/snd 660, group owned by audio, and all human users who need sound are in the audio group? These 666/777 solutions are just bad -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
Am 29.04.2013 11:43, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Kevin Thompson ph...@ewnix.net wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 04:43:46AM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:57 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:08 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. 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? Not really; as I said, the PA documentation clearly says that if you use system mode You are on your own. You need to know you way around, be able to write init scripts, dbus policies, to fix up device permissions, and unix users, you need to pass around security cookies and more. I haven't ever used system-wide PA. I think of the following; try to delete both /root/.pulse and $HOME/.pulse, and rebooting (probably a logout/login should suffice, but you never know). Another thing: if you installed PA since GNOME 3.8 needs it, why are you using it without GNOME? If you use GNOME, the session manager will automatically start PA as a user for you, and everything should work. If you are not running GNOME, why do you run PA? If you are at the console without X running, just don't use PA. Use mplayer -ao alsa or whatever. Or do you want to run several audio apps in the console? I want to run apps from the console, but to start gnome when I need it. Then do that. When you start GNOME, it will start PA automatically: you don't need to do anything. Don't try to start PA yourself; it's DBus activated. I am running pa as a user and things are still not working, except for the root user who can play sounds. I repeat: you don't need to run PA. GNOME will start it for you. But will that workif I have spawn=no in my /etc/pulse/client.conf which I have to have for regular apps to work from theconsole? Or is there some other way to make this happen? I don't understand the question. If you don't run PA by yourself, then it will be started only when using GNOME. And if you are using GNOME, you can use the nice sound settings dialog to get your sound. If you don't start GNOME, then PA will not be started. If you don't have sound in your console even without PA running, then is for some issue completely unrelated to PA. PA should not be started if you only log in through the console. Unless you are still running it system-wide, which is basically unsupported. OK, we will see what happens, so I have set spawn=no which should work to prevent pa except in gnome, so hopefully that should work. Thanks for clarifying this for me. -- 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 I had the same issue here when installing pulseaudio. I don't use GNOME, so that does take part of the equation away. The problem was solved by changing permissions to /dev/snd and it's containing files. After chmodding /dev/snd/* to 666, I was able to play sounds as a normal user. In the Gentoo guide, it mentions this, and it also mentions taking
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 29.04.2013 11:43, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Kevin Thompson ph...@ewnix.net wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 04:43:46AM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:57 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:08 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. 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? Not really; as I said, the PA documentation clearly says that if you use system mode You are on your own. You need to know you way around, be able to write init scripts, dbus policies, to fix up device permissions, and unix users, you need to pass around security cookies and more. I haven't ever used system-wide PA. I think of the following; try to delete both /root/.pulse and $HOME/.pulse, and rebooting (probably a logout/login should suffice, but you never know). Another thing: if you installed PA since GNOME 3.8 needs it, why are you using it without GNOME? If you use GNOME, the session manager will automatically start PA as a user for you, and everything should work. If you are not running GNOME, why do you run PA? If you are at the console without X running, just don't use PA. Use mplayer -ao alsa or whatever. Or do you want to run several audio apps in the console? I want to run apps from the console, but to start gnome when I need it. Then do that. When you start GNOME, it will start PA automatically: you don't need to do anything. Don't try to start PA yourself; it's DBus activated. I am running pa as a user and things are still not working, except for the root user who can play sounds. I repeat: you don't need to run PA. GNOME will start it for you. But will that workif I have spawn=no in my /etc/pulse/client.conf which I have to have for regular apps to work from theconsole? Or is there some other way to make this happen? I don't understand the question. If you don't run PA by yourself, then it will be started only when using GNOME. And if you are using GNOME, you can use the nice sound settings dialog to get your sound. If you don't start GNOME, then PA will not be started. If you don't have sound in your console even without PA running, then is for some issue completely unrelated to PA. PA should not be started if you only log in through the console. Unless you are still running it system-wide, which is basically unsupported. OK, we will see what happens, so I have set spawn=no which should work to prevent pa except in gnome, so hopefully that should work. Thanks for clarifying this for me. -- 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 I had the same issue here when installing pulseaudio. I don't use GNOME, so that does take part of the equation away. The problem was solved by changing permissions to
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
Am 29.04.2013 14:25, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: snip Those devices in there should be owned by root:audio $ ls -al /dev/snd/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 260 Apr 28 20:07 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4100 Apr 29 12:50 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Apr 28 20:07 by-path crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Apr 28 20:07 controlC0 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Apr 28 20:07 hwC0D0 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Apr 28 20:07 midiC0D0 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Apr 28 20:24 pcmC0D0c crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Apr 29 12:51 pcmC0D0p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Apr 28 20:07 pcmC0D1c crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Apr 28 20:07 pcmC0D2c crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Apr 28 20:11 pcmC0D2p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Apr 28 20:07 pcmC0D3p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Apr 28 20:07 timer If I do that than freeswitch does not work properly. I had a lot of difficulty setting things up and even making them 777 did not work for some reason, so I made the devices owned the same way as the freeswitch process. Have you tried adding freeswitch the to audio group?
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 29.04.2013 14:25, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: snip Those devices in there should be owned by root:audio $ ls -al /dev/snd/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 260 Apr 28 20:07 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4100 Apr 29 12:50 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Apr 28 20:07 by-path crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Apr 28 20:07 controlC0 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Apr 28 20:07 hwC0D0 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Apr 28 20:07 midiC0D0 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Apr 28 20:24 pcmC0D0c crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Apr 29 12:51 pcmC0D0p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Apr 28 20:07 pcmC0D1c crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Apr 28 20:07 pcmC0D2c crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Apr 28 20:11 pcmC0D2p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Apr 28 20:07 pcmC0D3p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Apr 28 20:07 timer If I do that than freeswitch does not work properly. I had a lot of difficulty setting things up and even making them 777 did not work for some reason, so I made the devices owned the same way as the freeswitch process. Have you tried adding freeswitch the to audio group? Yep, its a member to this day, but parts of it did not work that way for some reason. -- 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
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 29.04.2013 14:25, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: snip Those devices in there should be owned by root:audio $ ls -al /dev/snd/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 260 Apr 28 20:07 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4100 Apr 29 12:50 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Apr 28 20:07 by-path crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Apr 28 20:07 controlC0 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Apr 28 20:07 hwC0D0 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Apr 28 20:07 midiC0D0 crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Apr 28 20:24 pcmC0D0c crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Apr 29 12:51 pcmC0D0p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Apr 28 20:07 pcmC0D1c crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Apr 28 20:07 pcmC0D2c crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Apr 28 20:11 pcmC0D2p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Apr 28 20:07 pcmC0D3p crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Apr 28 20:07 timer If I do that than freeswitch does not work properly. I had a lot of difficulty setting things up and even making them 777 did not work for some reason, so I made the devices owned the same way as the freeswitch process. Have you tried adding freeswitch the to audio group? Yep, its a member to this day, but parts of it did not work that way for some reason. If you change the permissions in /dev/snd, I don't think PA can work properly. Could you please set your system to the default setup (doing a backup of the relevant files)? Leave the permissions of /dev/snd/* as the kernel sets them, use the original configuration files under /etc/pulse, and don't use the system-wide PA daemon. Then log in into the console, try to use an application that uses the soundcard (preferably something simple, like mplayer), and see if PA is running. If it is, please paste the output of pactl list. If PA it's not running and you get no sound, then the problem is elsewhere. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
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. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
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. -- 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
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
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. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
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. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
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
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
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
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
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. OK, I am looking at that, lots of things I don't understand, but I will read some more. -- 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
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
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? -- 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
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:08 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. 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? Not really; as I said, the PA documentation clearly says that if you use system mode You are on your own. You need to know you way around, be able to write init scripts, dbus policies, to fix up device permissions, and unix users, you need to pass around security cookies and more. I haven't ever used system-wide PA. I think of the following; try to delete both /root/.pulse and $HOME/.pulse, and rebooting (probably a logout/login should suffice, but you never know). Another thing: if you installed PA since GNOME 3.8 needs it, why are you using it without GNOME? If you use GNOME, the session manager will automatically start PA as a user for you, and everything should work. If you are not running GNOME, why do you run PA? If you are at the console without X running, just don't use PA. Use mplayer -ao alsa or whatever. Or do you want to run several audio apps in the console? Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:08 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. 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? Not really; as I said, the PA documentation clearly says that if you use system mode You are on your own. You need to know you way around, be able to write init scripts, dbus policies, to fix up device permissions, and unix users, you need to pass around security cookies and more. I haven't ever used system-wide PA. I think of the following; try to delete both /root/.pulse and $HOME/.pulse, and rebooting (probably a logout/login should suffice, but you never know). Another thing: if you installed PA since GNOME 3.8 needs it, why are you using it without GNOME? If you use GNOME, the session manager will automatically start PA as a user for you, and everything should work. If you are not running GNOME, why do you run PA? If you are at the console without X running, just don't use PA. Use mplayer -ao alsa or whatever. Or do you want to run several audio apps in the console? I want to run apps from the console, but to start gnome when I need it. I am running pa as a user and things are still not working, except for the root user who can play sounds. Thanks so much for all of your help. -- 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
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:57 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:08 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. 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? Not really; as I said, the PA documentation clearly says that if you use system mode You are on your own. You need to know you way around, be able to write init scripts, dbus policies, to fix up device permissions, and unix users, you need to pass around security cookies and more. I haven't ever used system-wide PA. I think of the following; try to delete both /root/.pulse and $HOME/.pulse, and rebooting (probably a logout/login should suffice, but you never know). Another thing: if you installed PA since GNOME 3.8 needs it, why are you using it without GNOME? If you use GNOME, the session manager will automatically start PA as a user for you, and everything should work. If you are not running GNOME, why do you run PA? If you are at the console without X running, just don't use PA. Use mplayer -ao alsa or whatever. Or do you want to run several audio apps in the console? I want to run apps from the console, but to start gnome when I need it. Then do that. When you start GNOME, it will start PA automatically: you don't need to do anything. Don't try to start PA yourself; it's DBus activated. I am running pa as a user and things are still not working, except for the root user who can play sounds. I repeat: you don't need to run PA. GNOME will start it for you. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:57 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:08 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. 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? Not really; as I said, the PA documentation clearly says that if you use system mode You are on your own. You need to know you way around, be able to write init scripts, dbus policies, to fix up device permissions, and unix users, you need to pass around security cookies and more. I haven't ever used system-wide PA. I think of the following; try to delete both /root/.pulse and $HOME/.pulse, and rebooting (probably a logout/login should suffice, but you never know). Another thing: if you installed PA since GNOME 3.8 needs it, why are you using it without GNOME? If you use GNOME, the session manager will automatically start PA as a user for you, and everything should work. If you are not running GNOME, why do you run PA? If you are at the console without X running, just don't use PA. Use mplayer -ao alsa or whatever. Or do you want to run several audio apps in the console? I want to run apps from the console, but to start gnome when I need it. Then do that. When you start GNOME, it will start PA automatically: you don't need to do anything. Don't try to start PA yourself; it's DBus activated. I am running pa as a user and things are still not working, except for the root user who can play sounds. I repeat: you don't need to run PA. GNOME will start it for you. But will that workif I have spawn=no in my /etc/pulse/client.conf which I have to have for regular apps to work from theconsole? Or is there some other way to make this happen? -- 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
Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:57 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:08 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. 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? Not really; as I said, the PA documentation clearly says that if you use system mode You are on your own. You need to know you way around, be able to write init scripts, dbus policies, to fix up device permissions, and unix users, you need to pass around security cookies and more. I haven't ever used system-wide PA. I think of the following; try to delete both /root/.pulse and $HOME/.pulse, and rebooting (probably a logout/login should suffice, but you never know). Another thing: if you installed PA since GNOME 3.8 needs it, why are you using it without GNOME? If you use GNOME, the session manager will automatically start PA as a user for you, and everything should work. If you are not running GNOME, why do you run PA? If you are at the console without X running, just don't use PA. Use mplayer -ao alsa or whatever. Or do you want to run several audio apps in the console? I want to run apps from the console, but to start gnome when I need it. Then do that. When you start GNOME, it will start PA automatically: you don't need to do anything. Don't try to start PA yourself; it's DBus activated. I am running pa as a user and things are still not working, except for the root user who can play sounds. I repeat: you don't need to run PA. GNOME will start it for you. But will that workif I have spawn=no in my /etc/pulse/client.conf which I have to have for regular apps to work from theconsole? Or is there some other way to make this happen? I don't understand the question. If you don't run PA by yourself, then it will be started only when using GNOME. And if you are using GNOME, you can use the nice sound settings dialog to get your sound. If you don't start GNOME, then PA will not be started. If you don't have sound in your console even without PA running, then is for some issue completely unrelated to PA. PA should not be started if you only log in through the console. Unless you are still running it system-wide, which is basically unsupported. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
