Re: Aplay problem -
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 14:06:41 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > The essential ones are OO and up to the red, "L{NE" was muted I set > to MM and turned the level up, that does not restore the sound though. > I'm stumped. Everything says you should have sound from aplay. aplay is producing sound. It's sending it to default, which is sound device 0. Sound device 0 has output enabled, and volumes turned up. Other sound plays through default and pulseaudio. A long shot. Check in pavucontrol whether the default device in pulseaudio is set to be device 0, the analog card, and that it is enabled. If that is true, I'm out of ideas. Everything says you should have sound. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Aplay problem -
On 2020-06-02 12:51, stan via users wrote: ^ The vvv is important, because it provides more information, including an output profile over time, a rough vu meter. That is, it will show if aplay is actually sending output to the device. [bobg@Workstation-1 ~]$ aplay -vvv apps/audio/login.wav Playing WAVE 'apps/audio/login.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo ALSA <-> PulseAudio PCM I/O Plugin Its setup is: stream : PLAYBACK access : RW_INTERLEAVED format : S16_LE subformat : STD channels : 2 rate : 22050 exact rate : 22050 (22050/1) msbits : 16 buffer_size : 11025 period_size : 2756 period_time : 125000 tstamp_mode : NONE tstamp_type : GETTIMEOFDAY period_step : 1 avail_min : 2756 period_event : 0 start_threshold : 11025 stop_threshold : 11025 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size : 0 boundary : 6206523236469964800 Max peak (5512 samples): 0x2334 ## 27% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x1b62 # 21% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x2e56 36% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x24c0 ## 28% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x3016 37% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x2bb5 ### 34% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x27c9 ### 31% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x1ab4 # 20% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x1459 15% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x0ab9 ## 8% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x04ac # 3% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x03a1 # 2% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x019d # 1% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x00e1 # 0% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x00ab # 0% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x0054 # 0% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x001c # 0% Max peak (5512 samples): 0x0006 # 0% hat's itnteresting in that when I feed aplay a tone, only happens in this computer, the volume begins low and increasesover a second or two, very noticable but not a problem I was bothered by. aplay --dump-hw-params [wav file] [bobg@Workstation-1 ~]$ aplay --dump-hw-params apps/audio/login.wav Playing WAVE 'apps/audio/login.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo HW Params of device "default": And the output is being processed through the default device, which is the link between alsa and pulseaudio. Yes I keep seeing that, looks like the connection between aplay and Polseaudio is open ... Can you check in pavucontrol that the default device is actually your device 0, the analog sound device? Or just do a cat /etc/alsa/alsactl.conf ° [bobg@Workstation-1 ~]$ cat /etc/alsa/alsactl.conf # # ALSA library configuration file for alsactl tool # (/usr/share/alsa tree is not necessary for alsactl) # ctl.hw { @args [ CARD ] @args.CARD { type string default "0" } type hw card $CARD Everything says sound should be playing. If you do alsamixer -c0 are Master and Front showing 00? Is the volume in the bar above 80%? The essential ones are OO and up to the red, "L{NE" was muted I set to MM and turned the level up, that does not restore the sound though. Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Aplay problem -
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 12:29:38 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 2020-06-02 11:54, stan via users wrote: > > Try > > aplay -vvv [wav file] > > > [bobg@Workstation-1 ~]$ aplay -v apps/audio/login.wav ^ The vvv is important, because it provides more information, including an output profile over time, a rough vu meter. That is, it will show if aplay is actually sending output to the device. > > aplay --dump-hw-params [wav file] > [bobg@Workstation-1 ~]$ aplay --dump-hw-params apps/audio/login.wav > Playing WAVE 'apps/audio/login.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, > Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo > HW Params of device "default": And the output is being processed through the default device, which is the link between alsa and pulseaudio. Can you check in pavucontrol that the default device is actually your device 0, the analog sound device? Or just do a cat /etc/alsa/alsactl.conf Everything says sound should be playing. If you do alsamixer -c0 are Master and Front showing 00? Is the volume in the bar above 80%? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Aplay problem -
On 2020-06-02 11:54, stan via users wrote: Try aplay -vvv [wav file] [bobg@Workstation-1 ~]$ aplay -v apps/audio/login.wav Playing WAVE 'apps/audio/login.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo ALSA <-> PulseAudio PCM I/O Plugin Its setup is: stream : PLAYBACK access : RW_INTERLEAVED format : S16_LE subformat: STD channels : 2 rate : 22050 exact rate : 22050 (22050/1) msbits : 16 buffer_size : 11025 period_size : 2756 period_time : 125000 tstamp_mode : NONE tstamp_type : GETTIMEOFDAY period_step : 1 avail_min: 2756 period_event : 0 start_threshold : 11025 stop_threshold : 11025 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size : 0 boundary : 6206523236469964800 or aplay --dump-hw-params [wav file] [bobg@Workstation-1 ~]$ aplay --dump-hw-params apps/audio/login.wav Playing WAVE 'apps/audio/login.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo HW Params of device "default": ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: U8 S16_LE S16_BE S24_LE S24_BE S32_LE S32_BE FLOAT_LE FLOAT_BE MU_LAW A_LAW S24_3LE S24_3BE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: [8 32] FRAME_BITS: [8 1024] CHANNELS: [1 32] RATE: [1 384000] PERIOD_TIME: (2 4294967295) PERIOD_SIZE: [1 1398102) PERIOD_BYTES: [128 1398102) PERIODS: [3 1024] BUFFER_TIME: (7 4294967295] BUFFER_SIZE: [3 4194304] BUFFER_BYTES: [384 4194304] TICK_TIME: ALL What does aplay -l show? [bobg@Workstation-1 ~]$ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 See man aplay for explanations. ___ -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Aplay problem -
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 10:57:00 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 2020-06-01 06:45, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Well, I still have this annoying problem but after my effort > yesterday it appears there was a few errors in my description. > > The Thunderbird notification does not use aplay, it just gets the > file and path: "file:///home/bobg/apps/audio/login.wav" > And when J aplay that same file PSvolume does not show the metering > bar, it is only showing in text that it is "Playing .wav" on the > "Playback" input and the same text on the "Output Devices" sound > while nothing is heard from the loudspeaker. > > So it seems that aplay has simply stopped producing output. Other > audio sources still work as expected e.g. Thunderbird and VLC both > produce sound. Aplay from a terminal does not. > > I tried "# dnf reinstall /usr/bin/aplay" and it installed > "alsa-utils" which presumably contains aplay, that made no > improvement. > > I am still open to suggestions, Bob Try aplay -vvv [wav file] or aplay --dump-hw-params [wav file] What does aplay -l show? See man aplay for explanations. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Aplay problem -
On 2020-06-01 06:45, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-05-31 22:12, Samuel Sieb wrote: If you rebooted, then the runaway script is gone and won't be affecting anything. I'm confused how you say some things can run aplay and make audio, but you can't run it directly. _ ° Yes, confusing to me too, I try only to query when I reach the end of my limited skill set. It seems to me like a path through Pulseaudio is broken. I will go back and try again with all I have there, the pavolume GUI. Will report back if I find anything, day just begins here ... Thanks all for the suggestions, Bob ° Well, I still have this annoying problem but after my effort yesterday it appears there was a few errors in my description. The Thunderbird notification does not use aplay, it just gets the file and path: "file:///home/bobg/apps/audio/login.wav" And when J aplay that same file PSvolume does not show the metering bar, it is only showing in text that it is "Playing .wav" on the "Playback" input and the same text on the "Output Devices" sound while nothing is heard from the loudspeaker. So it seems that aplay has simply stopped producing output. Other audio sources still work as expected e.g. Thunderbird and VLC both produce sound. Aplay from a terminal does not. I tried "# dnf reinstall /usr/bin/aplay" and it installed "alsa-utils" which presumably contains aplay, that made no improvement. I am still open to suggestions, Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Aplay problem -
On 2020-05-31 22:12, Samuel Sieb wrote: If you rebooted, then the runaway script is gone and won't be affecting anything. I'm confused how you say some things can run aplay and make audio, but you can't run it directly. _ ° Yes, confusing to me too, I try only to query when I reach the end of my limited skill set. It seems to me like a path through Pulseaudio is broken. I will go back and try again with all I have there, the pavolume GUI. Will report back if I find anything, day just begins here ... Thanks all for the suggestions, Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Aplay problem -
On Sun, 2020-05-31 at 19:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > No, that would only kill the aplay and then the shell script would > immediately start it again. Of course, I was forgetting it was in the middle of a script. I was thinking of a command going nuts. Surely just closing the terminal window would have killed that? Presuming he was in a graphical screenmode. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.8.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 12 16:57:42 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Aplay problem -
On 5/31/20 6:22 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-05-31 20:38, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/31/20 5:01 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I found this script in a list on my computer, ran it and found I had no way to stop it. What shuts it off? while [ 1 <> 0 ] do aplay /usr/share/sounds/purple/login.wav done It's an infinite loop. Repeatedly pressing CTRL-C should stop it or else killing the bash process from another terminal. Well Control C is one of the first things I try, perhaps I should have kept trying longer? When I found no remedy in my notes I was beaten and had to reboot. You have to hit it fast enough in a row that you kill the aplay and then the bash script before it starts another one. The easier method is to just kill the bash script from another terminal. Sometimes another option is to use ^Z or kill -STOP the process to give you time to catch it. However aplay will not work after that episode. I can see the audio signal with the pulseaudio meter bar and Thunderbird still signals received mail via aplay, but other things where I used it produce no sound in the loudspeaker. Aplay in a terminal produces no sound, so I guess the loop still runs and audio is being muted from it. Nothing I tried in PAvolume restored it, I will try anything suggested now. If you rebooted, then the runaway script is gone and won't be affecting anything. I'm confused how you say some things can run aplay and make audio, but you can't run it directly. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
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On 5/31/20 7:03 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2020-05-31 at 21:22 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: Well Control C is one of the first things I try, perhaps I should have kept trying longer? When I found no remedy in my notes I was beaten and had to reboot. Sometimes doing something like killall aplay A few times will put an end to things running away from you. No, that would only kill the aplay and then the shell script would immediately start it again. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Aplay problem -
On Sun, 2020-05-31 at 21:22 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Well Control C is one of the first things I try, perhaps I should > have kept trying longer? When I found no remedy in my notes I was > beaten and had to reboot. Sometimes doing something like killall aplay A few times will put an end to things running away from you. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.8.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 12 16:57:42 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Aplay problem -
On 2020-05-31 20:38, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/31/20 5:01 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I found this script in a list on my computer, ran it and found I had no way to stop it. What shuts it off? while [ 1 <> 0 ] do aplay /usr/share/sounds/purple/login.wav done It's an infinite loop. Repeatedly pressing CTRL-C should stop it or else killing the bash process from another terminal. Well Control C is one of the first things I try, perhaps I should have kept trying longer? When I found no remedy in my notes I was beaten and had to reboot. However aplay will not work after that episode. I can see the audio signal with the pulseaudio meter bar and Thunderbird still signals received mail via aplay, but other things where I used it produce no sound in the loudspeaker. Aplay in a terminal produces no sound, so I guess the loop still runs and audio is being muted from it. Nothing I tried in PAvolume restored it, I will try anything suggested now. -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Aplay problem -
On 5/31/20 5:01 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I found this script in a list on my computer, ran it and found I had no way to stop it. What shuts it off? while [ 1 <> 0 ] do aplay /usr/share/sounds/purple/login.wav done It's an infinite loop. Repeatedly pressing CTRL-C should stop it or else killing the bash process from another terminal. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Aplay problem -
I found this script in a list on my computer, ran it and found I had no way to stop it. What shuts it off? while [ 1 <> 0 ] do aplay /usr/share/sounds/purple/login.wav done Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org