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#1 2005-02-17 23:46:48
- Gullible Jones
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Hmm... Is this the origin of my sound woes?
Well, well, well... I just discovered that, while the group that dives access to sound is called "audio", all the documentation I can find about ALSA refers to a (nonexistant by default) group called "sound".
Do I have to add a "sound" group for ALSA to work right?
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#2 2005-02-18 02:26:42
- Mith
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Re: Hmm... Is this the origin of my sound woes?
well do you have no sound at all? I have no sound group, use alsa and have sound. So my guess is a sound group is not needed
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#3 2005-02-18 03:48:53
- iphitus
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Re: Hmm... Is this the origin of my sound woes?
depends on your udev setup whether you need a sound group or not, by default i dont think you do. your sound might have broken through the latest udev update which has a new imho terrible permissions system
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#4 2005-02-18 11:43:22
- Gullible Jones
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Re: Hmm... Is this the origin of my sound woes?
No... I've been able to listen to CDs for a while, but no audio files. :? And apparently this is not just a GStreamer problem... Also happens on KDE/ARTS if you can believe it.
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#5 2005-02-18 19:01:33
- kpiche
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Re: Hmm... Is this the origin of my sound woes?
Is your 'PCM' audio channel muted?
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#6 2005-02-18 19:43:36
- phrakture
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Re: Hmm... Is this the origin of my sound woes?
Is your 'PCM' audio channel muted?
I was gonna say that...
If you can listen to audio at all, then your sound is fine - it's not the modules, it's not alsa, etc
run alsamixer and hit 'M' on the PCM channel - I suspect, as does kpiche, that it's muted
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#7 2005-02-18 20:05:34
- Dusty
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Re: Hmm... Is this the origin of my sound woes?
If you can listen to audio at all, then your sound is fine - it's not the modules, it's not alsa, etc
Not strictly true. Many times I've had alsa problems, but playing a CD works fine because its routed straight through the sound card, not through the mixer.
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#8 2005-02-18 20:19:55
- phrakture
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Re: Hmm... Is this the origin of my sound woes?
phrakture wrote:If you can listen to audio at all, then your sound is fine - it's not the modules, it's not alsa, etc
Not strictly true. Many times I've had alsa problems, but playing a CD works fine because its routed straight through the sound card, not through the mixer.
Dusty
that's if you attach that little cord... but who does that anymore? heh
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#9 2005-02-18 20:24:11
- Dusty
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Re: Hmm... Is this the origin of my sound woes?
possibly the original poster did. 
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#10 2005-02-18 21:35:47
- Gullible Jones
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Re: Hmm... Is this the origin of my sound woes?
PCM was unmuted, all channels were unmuted.
(This was before the uDev upgrade though.)
If this is a problem with the mixer... Then no mixer of any kind was working.
(You guys might want to check out the "Files do not play!" thread...)
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