On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 10:57:00 -0400 Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2020-06-01 06:45, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Well, I still have this annoying problem but after my effort > yesterday it appears there was a few errors in my description. > > The Thunderbird notification does not use aplay, it just gets the > file and path: "file:///home/bobg/apps/audio/login.wav" > And when J aplay that same file PSvolume does not show the metering > bar, it is only showing in text that it is "Playing .wav" on the > "Playback" input and the same text on the "Output Devices" sound > while nothing is heard from the loudspeaker. > > So it seems that aplay has simply stopped producing output. Other > audio sources still work as expected e.g. Thunderbird and VLC both > produce sound. Aplay from a terminal does not. > > I tried "# dnf reinstall /usr/bin/aplay" and it installed > "alsa-utils" which presumably contains aplay, that made no > improvement. > > I am still open to suggestions, Bob Try aplay -vvv [wav file] or aplay --dump-hw-params [wav file] What does aplay -l show? See man aplay for explanations. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
