Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 09/11/2012 09:56 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> 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.
Some of us who use a different distro have the option of not using
PA, but when we do use it, we're told that it runs ON TOP OF alsa,
and that you can't run PA without Alsa. So make of that what you will.
For reference, the distro I speak of is PCLinuxOS.

--doug
>


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