[SOLVED] No sound in steam, works in Firefox

ategor · 2014-09-02 21:09:10

Okay, massive improvement now.

I get working sound everywhere except for wine applications (but I guess this is just a matter of telling wine to use PA by default? EDIT: Yes, it was just a matter of telling wine to use the system defaults, all working now) - AND now I can control it using the volume controls. Great success!

I ran both speaker tests.

This one worked and showed up as the only speaker test under the fuser command:

speaker-test -c 2 -t wav -D plug:"dmix:{CARD PCH DEV 0}"

For some reason this was not possible to control the volume level of this test through the volume control options in Gnome.

This one worked too and showed up in pavucontrol, and responded to adjusting volume:

 speaker-test -c 2 -t wav -D plug:default

I don't know why I can't control the volume level during the "dmix" test? It was the same issue I had with everything before using the asound.conf file you posted above. If it is supposed behavior and that I will only run into this during that speaker test, then I think this is solved?

Last edited by ategor (2014-09-02 21:11:00)

emeres · 2014-09-02 21:19:11

ategor wrote:

This one worked and showed up as the only speaker test under the fuser command:
speaker-test -c 2 -t wav -D plug:"dmix:{CARD PCH DEV 0}"
For some reason this was not possible to control the volume level of this test through the volume control options in Gnome.

Not for 'some reason'. This is intended. This speaker-test addresses alsa directly, it does not pass through PA, so PA has no control over it whatsoever, except maybe by master/pcm volume.
Now you can run applications that do not accept other drivers/have no configuration for sound output at the same time as PA. Something more sophisticated, where the alsa device can be changed through environment variables, can be found here, untested however, since I do not use PA.
What wine package are you using? Do you use PoL?

Should you consider this issue solved, then please mark the thread as such.

Edit: As for volume control in alsa, you can always use the softvol plugin.

Last edited by emeres (2014-09-02 21:24:36)

ategor · 2014-09-03 07:07:19

Thanks a lot for your help.

I'm marking this as solved.

emeres · 2014-09-03 09:47:12

You are welcome.

ewaller · 2014-09-03 16:13:34

emeres gets the Gold Star award for his mastery of the vagaries of sound in Linux

emeres · 2014-09-03 16:26:22

Well thank you ewaller. What are the measurements? I will build a cabinet for it.

Arch Linux

#26 2014-09-02 21:09:10

Re: [SOLVED] No sound in steam, works in Firefox

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