Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD
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. 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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