[olug] sound?

Shannon ridgid at gmail.com
Thu Jun 27 20:54:25 UTC 2013


still sounds like a mixer somewhere, you got kmix or something like that
directing the sounds?
i had lot of problems for a while with kde sending things to the hdmi vcard
as the default sound device
see if  you got your master channel selected on the right card.


On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Noel Leistad <noel at metc.net> wrote:

> Mixer levels all sources at 100%. Works FINE in MythTV, the
> system-config-soundcard works as well. I don't have pulse installed, but
> could try. Suppose it'll get no worse...the alternative has been KVM
> switch to a Windows box for audio. How degrading; and how lazy.
>
> Noel
>
> On 06/27/2013 03:02 PM, Justin Reiners wrote:
> > porn is absolutely no fun without sound... I feel your pain :)
> >
> > That is strange that it works everywhere else, do you get any errors when
> > attempting to play sounds?
> >
> > like others have said, I would check mixer levels.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Kelly Williams
> > <kellywilliams81 at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> I had the same problem last night when I mint 13 on my Dell D610. It
> >> worked fine until I added mate desktop to it. Pulse was saying there was
> >> the card and it was getting sound, I could see the meter flashing but
> >> nothing was coming out of the speakers and I tried using the head phones
> >> and that didn't work either. This is what worked for me try it
> >> http://unix.stackexchange.com/**questions/44423/getting-sound-**
> >> working-on-linux-mint-13-mate<
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44423/getting-sound-working-on-linux-mint-13-mate
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 6/27/2013 12:59 PM, Rob Townley wrote:
> >>
> >>> egrep -i 'pulse|audio|sound|rtkit' /etc/group
> >>>
> >>> rtkit is the realtime part of pulse, but that group is not needed.  i
> >>> would
> >>> like to see documentation on what groups to append to default groups
> for
> >>> sound and cd burning.  But more importantly, for all the groups in
> >>> /etc/group, what each particular group enables and the security
> >>> ramifications of each.
> >>>
> >>> Permission changes require at least logout/login to become effective
> ....
> >>> maybe even a reboot since pulse sets cookies for X.  `id username`
> would
> >>> show i am a member of a particular group, but forget that it had not
> >>> really
> >>> become effective yet.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  Try Pulse Audio Player
> >>>> paplay /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav
> >>>>
> >>>> Could it be a permissions problem?  System-config* stuff is often run
> as
> >>>> root, is the user a member of the audio group?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>  Any chance it is a speaker or hardware problem?
> >>>>> Dan
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sent from my iPad
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Jun 27, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Noel Leistad <noel at metc.net> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  It's been so long since I've had to fix a sound issue that I've
> >>>>>> forgotten how. Could anyone offer suggestions or tell me what I
> forgot
> >>>>>> to provide? I'm stumped; the fact that system-config-soundcard is
> >>>>>> working along w/ MythTV complicates it to the point that Google
> hasn't
> >>>>>> been helpful in the first 15 minutes of searching....
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> noel
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> running CentOS 5.9 32-bit
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> no sound from aplay /usr/share/sounds/* attempts
> >>>>>> no sound from vlc *.mp3 attempts
> >>>>>> no sound or sound device from any flash videos (ahhh!! the real
> >>>>>> problem...., or at least the reason for attempting to fix)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> system-config-soundcard detects, plays test sound.
> >>>>>> mythfrontend plays sound from recordings, liveTV
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> aplay -l gives:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
> >>>>>> card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
> >>>>>>   Subdevices: 1/1
> >>>>>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> >>>>>> card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5
> -
> >>>>>> IEC958]
> >>>>>>   Subdevices: 0/1
> >>>>>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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