Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD
On Mon 10 Sep 2012 at 22:13:06 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> 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.
aplay shoud give just one or two lines saying what it is playing, so
your diagnosis looks correct.
> pulseaudio is a "depends" (not a "recommends") dependency of gnome-core;
> so I can't de-install it. As for killing the daemon, gnome automatically
> re-spawns pulseaudio if I kill the daemon. I have to stop gnome.
> But even then, no output from playing audio CDs and no output from aplay.
> Yet, gnome can generate sounds. Maddening.
A quick and reliable way of disabling pulseaudio permanently is with
update-rc.d pulseaudio disable
But it seems less likely to be at the root of your problem.
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