Re: Can't get sound to work

[Frédéric Marchal <frederic.marchal@wowtechnology.com>]

On Friday 16 January 2015 10:33:23, Lisi Reisz wrote :
> On Friday 16 January 2015 08:41:29 Frédéric Marchal wrote:
> > But sound started to work fine after I edited $HOME/.asoundrc like this:
> > 
> > pcm.!default {
> >   type plug
> >   slave {
> >     pcm "hw:1,0"
> >   }
> > }
> > ctl.!default {
> >   type hw
> >   card 1
> > }
> > 
> > The symptoms are not the same as yours. aplay doesn't play sound when I
> > select the PCM device on the command line. But, with audacity, if I
> > explicitly select ALSA as output and device hw:1,0, sound comes out. So,
> > I may have another problem that prevents aplay from running when the PCM
> > device is specified and the above solution may still help you.
> > 
> > BTW, I have pulseaudio installed in case it matters.
> 
> So the advice is to have alsa and pulseaudio?

I haven't investigated that far. I'm just stating a fact.

I don't know what's the purpose of pulseaudio nor what are the benefits of 
having installed it. I don't know if it would break something to remove it.

I believe it was installed at some point as part of a routine system update 
and may have been the cause of the sound failure in the first place.

Frederic