[olug] sound?

[Justin Reiners]

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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> ##############################**#########################
>>>>> #  Noel Leistad,                                     #
>>>>> #  noel at metc.net                                      #
>>>>> ##############################**#########################
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The old complaint that mass culture is designed for eleven-year-olds
>>>>> is of course a shameful canard.  The key age has traditionally been
>>>>> more like fourteen.
>>>>>         -- Robert Christgau, "Esquire"
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