[olug] sound?

[unfy]

I'll echo request for no errors from aplay etc ?

Are you attempting to pump audio out HDMI or the 3.5mm jacks ?

-Will


On 6/27/2013 3:29 PM, Noel Leistad 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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>>>>>>> #  Noel Leistad,                                     #
>>>>>>> #  noel at metc.net                                      #
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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