Re: [gentoo-user] no sound with pulseaudio

["Spidey / Claudio" <spideybr@gmail.com>]

pavucontrol is your friend. It lets you configure your sound devices
current profile, and also set the fallback (default) sink.

Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey)
hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr
Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1



On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 21:58, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I see the problem: the sound is getting through the digital output,
> not the analog one (near the end of pactl output). You need to set the
> analog output: pactl man page will tell you how (sorry, left the laptop at
> the office and I'm writing this on my phone). It's also possible to do it
> with gnome-sound-settings, in the hardware tab (if I remember correctly).
>
> Good luck.
>
> El 28/09/2011 20:27, "Tamer Higazi" <th982a@googlemail.com> escribió:
>> Am 29.09.2011 01:27, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@googlemail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Am 29.09.2011 00:03, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@googlemail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Am 28.09.2011 23:28, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@googlemail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>>> I have configured pulseaudio according
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> but I simply have no sound.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The pulseaudio playback volume meter shows me signal, and that the
>>>>>>>> bars
>>>>>>>> are jumping if I playback a music track.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> alsa-plugins (with pulseaudio USE flag)
>>>>>>>> gst-plugins-pulse
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> are installed. But I don't know what is being blocked, that I have
>>>>>>>> no
>>>>>>>> sound output at my headphones.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> PS: the headphones are ok.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What music player are you using? Did you set or modify ~/.asoundrc?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ~/.asoundrc doesn't exist.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have /etc/asound.conf with these entries:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> pcm.pulse {
>>>>>> type pulse
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ctl.pulse {
>>>>>> type pulse
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> for all alsa applications to be redirected to pulse!
>>>>>
>>>>> Mmmh. It's not exactly like that: If you use pcm.pulse and ctl.pulse,
>>>>> then you need to specify pulse as the virtual ALSA device. If you want
>>>>> "all alsa applications to be redirected to pulse", you need:
>>>>>
>>>>> pcm.!default {
>>>>> type pulse
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> ctl.!default {
>>>>> type pulse
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>>> The players Rhythmbox, xine all with pulseaudio default output
>>>>>> plugins.
>>>>>
>>>>> That should work. Did you check in sound settings that pulse is indeed
>>>>> the desired output
>>>>>
>>>>>>> What Desktop do you use?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gnome, latest 2.x version
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is the pulseaudio daemon running?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> tamer@office ~ $ pstree -pu | grep puls
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> |-pulseaudio(22833,tamer)-+-gconf-helper(22840)---{gconf-helper}(22841)
>>>>>> | |-{pulseaudio}(22839)
>>>>>> | `-{pulseaudio}(22842)
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks OK.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have added all config files in "/etc/pulse/"
>>>>>
>>>>> I wouldn't touch the files on /etc/pulse. I recommend first trying to
>>>>> make it work with the files included with pulseaudio (backup
>>>>> /etc/pulse, move the dir out of /etc and emerge again pulseaudio)
>>>>> before trying anything else. Supposedly, pulseaudio should "just
>>>>> works". Since the first time I installed it I have never touched the
>>>>> files in /etc/pulse, except to change the log-level of the daemon.
>>>>>
>>>> As requested, I moved the pulse folder somewhere else and remerged
>>>> pulseaudio as well moved /etc/asound.conf somewhere else as well.
>>>>
>>>> No sound!
>>>
>>> Weird.
>>>
>>>>> I'm on GNOME 3, so things are a little different, and I don't remember
>>>>> exactly the dialogs, but instead of the Gentoo wiki page, I would
>>>>> follow this:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
>>>>>
>>>>> And more specifically:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#GNOME
>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#GStreamerApplications
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, in really weird cases, the ALSA device gets its volume muted:
>>>>> You can try to remove (back up first) /etc/asound.conf, and run (as
>>>>> root)
>>>>>
>>>>> alsamixer -V all
>>>>
>>>> I did, and fired all the bars up. nothing! really nothing!
>>>
>>> Really weird.
>>>
>>>>> and trying to unmute and turn up the volume on everything. When you
>>>>> hear something with any player, return the asound.conf to /etc and try
>>>>> again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards.
>>>>
>>>> I have the dumb feeling that one process is blocking the output, I hear
>>>> in my headphones the white noise of my system, which wouldn't be there
>>>> if the soundcard hadn't been initialised.
>>>
>>> It's more simple than that: if you see the bars movind in the mixer
>>> application, some sound should be made.
>>>
>>>> Is there a way to find out which applications might make use of the
>>>> soundcard right now?!
>>>
>>> Probably with strace or a similar tool; however, let me see first if
>>> I'm understanding the problem. This is a laptop?
>>
>> A usual tower machine! Core2 DUO, nothing's special!
>>
>> If so, the sound
>>> works without headphones? The internal speakers work?
>>
>> with the headphones all the time....
>>
>> There are no internal speakers (not a notebook)
>>>
>>> Also, can you please post the output of "pactl list"?
>> Yes of course, here it is:
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=wDgy3x64
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>> Tamer
>>
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