Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble
I've never run into any command like that. Try running paplay and see if
you can play a sound file with that command. You may also want to run
pulseaudio --status and see what's going on with that system.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that
order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:
> Is pulseaudio not always running?
> Here's where I'm at now.
> I plugged in a USB soundcard, and in the terminal, I can play a wav file
> with aplay.
> But no GUI audio.
> Orca should be running, but there is no sound.
> speaker-test and aplay do work now in the terminal with the USB soundcard.
> Is there a command that will list all sound devices and their states with
> regard to volume and mute status?
>
> Thanks
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@panix.com>
> To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>;
> <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 2:11 PM
> Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble
>
>
> Was pulseaudio started before that script got run? If not, pactl has
> nothing to control.
>
>
> -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that
> order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
>
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me why I get permission problems on the below command?
> > I found this command on-line while searching for any sort of solution to
> > get
> > audio back:
> > sudo pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle
> > I made it into a bash script and ran
> > sudo bash file.sh
> > Here's a copy of the command and the error:
> > lenny@lenny-desktop:~$ sudo bash unmutetoggle.sh
> > graphic 192 Home directory not accessible: Permission denied
> >
> > Connection failure: Connection refused
> > pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused
> > graphic 545 lenny@lenny-desktop:~$
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@panix.com>
> > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>;
> > <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 1:31 PM
> > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble
> >
> >
> > You wouldn't get the feedback since it's over ssh.
> >
> >
>
>
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