Hi, Prashant, thanks for your E-mail, and suggestions.
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 05:21:45PM -0600, Alves, Prashant wrote:
>
>
> Did you check alsamixer to ensure that the outputs are not muted ? Also
> if you have pulseaudio installed, you would have to check pulse audio
> mixer to ensure the sound is not muted there (or remove pulseaudio to
> debug or reduce complexity).
It is my understanding that alsamixer and amixer do the
same things, alsamixer being a graphical(ncurses) interface,
and amixer command-line. Am I wrong? I can send a picture
of the alsamixer interface, if you think it would help.
I turn my computer off every night, and reboot in the
morning. This morning after turning the computer on I
immediately checked my /var/log/ hoping to find out
what messages were given by the boot process. Here
are the results of grep pulse * that bore a
date of Nov 11
(start)--------------------------
messages in syslog about pulseaudio
syslog.1:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Faile
d to open cookie file '/etc/timidity/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or dire
ctory
syslog.1:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Faile
d to load authorization key '/etc/timidity/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file o
r directory
syslog.1:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Faile
d to open cookie file '/etc/timidity/.pulse-cookie': No such file or directory
syslog.1:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Faile
d to load authorization key '/etc/timidity/.pulse-cookie': No such file or direc
tory
syslog.1:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Faile
d to open cookie file '/etc/timidity/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or dire
ctory
syslog.1:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Faile
d to load authorization key '/etc/timidity/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file o
r directory
syslog.1:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [autospawn] core-util.c: Home
directory not accessible: Permission denied
syslog.1:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [autospawn] lock-autospawn.c:
Cannot access autospawn lock.
syslog.1:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed t
o acquire autospawn lock
And from user.log
user.log:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Faile
d to open cookie file '/etc/timidity/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or dire
ctory
user.log:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Faile
d to load authorization key '/etc/timidity/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file o
r directory
user.log:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Faile
d to open cookie file '/etc/timidity/.pulse-cookie': No such file or directory
user.log:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Faile
d to load authorization key '/etc/timidity/.pulse-cookie': No such file or direc
tory
user.log:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Faile
d to open cookie file '/etc/timidity/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or dire
ctory
user.log:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Faile
d to load authorization key '/etc/timidity/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file o
r directory
user.log:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [autospawn] core-util.c: Home
directory not accessible: Permission denied
user.log:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [autospawn] lock-autospawn.c:
Cannot access autospawn lock.
user.log:Nov 11 07:17:26 alanmcc pulseaudio[2417]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed t
o acquire autospawn lock
------------------------(finish)
They seem to indicate that there are files missing
that the system would like to find. Perhaps you can
read more into them than I can. I am not even sure
where the logs of my booting this morning are!
> My computer is connected via HDMI and I had to create a asound.conf to
> use the audio jack instead of the hdmi audio. Do you have a similar
> setup ?
<G> I believe so. I confess that I am very much in the
dark still. I am certainly using HDMI. If I have an
asound.conf, I haven't found it.
I hope that you will have new ideas!
Alan
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