Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 09:33 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 09:10 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Lu, 10 sep 12, 22:13:06, Stephen Powell wrote:
> > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:55:36 -0400 (EDT), Brian wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I use the first method with cdtool. Let's get the obvious out of the
> > > > way. You're in the cdrom and audio groups. The cable is connected
> > > > correctly and securely. The speakers are connected correctly to the
> > > > output of the sound card.
> > >
> > > I can confirm that my userid is in the cdrom and audio groups. I haven't
> > > checked the cable connections yet, but I plan to do that tomorrow.
> > > But the problem seems to be more systemic. I can't seem to get aplay
> > > to work on a .wav file. It runs, and it generates messages on the
> > > screen, but no sound.
> >
> > What does
> >
> > speaker-test -c2 -t wav
> >
> > do (both as user and root)?
> >
> > > > Pulseaudio isn't on my system but isn't it a daemon? Wouldn't stopping
> > > > it allow you to eliminate it as a cause?
> > >
> > > pulseaudio is a "depends" (not a "recommends") dependency of gnome-core;
> > > so I can't de-install it.
> >
> > Assuming you really want to keep Gnome there are several workarounds for
> > that:
> > - just remove the gnome-core metapackage and keep all other dependencies
> > - equivs (either build a replacement metapackage or a replacement
> > dependency)
> > - dpkg --force-depends
>
> There are two ways to get rid of pulseaudio:
> 1. Compile gnome-settings-daemon with --disable-pulse, if Debian didn't
> change something, this is the part that upstream makes hard depend on
> pulseaudio. Take a look at the Arch PKGBUILD
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48718 .
> 2. Build an empty dummy package.
BUILD A DUMMY PACKAGE FOR pulseaudio. Don't build it for the lib, not
for a meta package and not for the gnome-settings-daemon.
> I did this for Debian and I'm using one
> for Arch.
> It's easy to build a dummy package for Debian using equivs. This howto
> isn't obsolete:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
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