On Fri, 3 May 2013, Joe Armstrong wrote: Try running aplay, etc as root, and see if it works, to see if it is some permission problem. If that does not work either,then the problem lies elsewhere. If that also does not work, then I do not know what to suggest. Have you looked through the dmesg output to see if there is anything there re the sound card? > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, 3 May 2013, Joe Armstrong wrote: >> >>> joe@nuc:~$ grep audio /etc/group >>> audio:x:29:pulse,joe >>> joe@nuc:~$ whoami >>> joe >> >> >> Good. So now it works? >> >> (Note that I removed the alsa users from this mail exchange) > > (cc'd to the list - I actually sent this reply earlier to Clemens > Ladisch but forgot to cc to the list) > > No - I hear no sounds. > > Also the alsamixer has no volume controls > > Another strange thing > >> aplay -vv sound.wav > > Behaves strangely - the song position indicator that indicates the > percentage of the file played hops around it just from 28% to 5% to 30% > etc. in a wild manner Does sound come out? (I presume not). Hopping around does sound weird. Is there anything unusual about sound.wav? What kind of file is it? > > /Joe > >>>> >>>>> Sorry it was a typo - I did do adduser >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> As I said the format of your command does not look like like the correct >>>> format for adding a user to a group. I have never used adduser, so there >>>> may >>>> be subtleties that I do not understand, but from the man page, your >>>> command >>>> makes no sense. >>>> Anyway, look in /etc/group to see if it did what you thought it should. >>>> Did >>>> it? What is the output of grep audio /etc/group >>>> >>>> ? >>>> >>>>> >>>>> /Joe >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, 3 May 2013, Clemens Ladisch wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Joe Armstrong wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> This is what I did: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> sudo adduer joe audio >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> What is adduer? If that is supposed to be adduser, that creates a new >>>>>> user >>>>>> with that name. Just edit /etc/group and put the user name into the >>>>>> audio >>>>>> group line. Or >>>>>> check it now to see if it has been done. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 >>>> Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 >>>> UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ >>> >>> >> >> -- >> William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 >> Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 >> UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
