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Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD



On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:10:01 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 
> What does 
> 
>     speaker-test -c2 -t wav
> 
> do (both as user and root)?

It works!  Both as root and as a normal user.  Amazing!  So why does
aplay fail?  It's a mystery to me!
> 
> 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

As much as I dislike pulseaudio (I wish everyone would use alsa), it is
evident that this is the future direction of Debian; so I would like to
find a way for pulseaudio and alsa to peacefully coexist if possible.

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