On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Cédric Girard <girard.cedric@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:25 PM, phanisvara das wrote: > > > since he's using KDE anyway, why not use pulseaudio instead? it's > > the default for the big DEs, and in my experience it doesn't screw > > up one's system anymore, as it used to in the beginning. > > > > mostly, at least for me, it simply works. specially if you install > > pavucontrol, an interface for all hard- and software audio > > channelsl on your machine. > > > > Yes probably. > But as he is not using pulseaudio and I have no experience with it, I was > only speaking of what I know and what works for me. > > I am not sure if adding an extra layer which happens to bring new useful > features is always the best solution to a problem. > > Anyway Mike has now two solutions to try, either with or without PA. What > works for him and fits him at the end of the day is only what should > matter. > > Regards, > > I was unsure what was meant by trying to set up without KDE in the way? I presumed that I could only run the chrome browser within a D.E. in order to test the problem of flashplayer running a video with sound output? It was not clear to me how to do that unless I had a different D.E. running (i.e. not KDE) or window manager within which to test it? Presumably I can't test from a text console, or can I? - apart from the command which works from a Konsole terminal within KDE as I originally posted: aplay -D plughw:0,7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav So presumably I need to set this into either ~/.sound or /etc/alsa.conf and try to test from a text console as: aplay -D /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav and if that works then the default channel will have been set as the HDMI channel and then switch back to trying from KDE ? Certainly if I can't get that to work as a solution and re-enable KDE then of course I can follow the wiki advice on setting up pulseaudio and testing that route for a possible solution. I will report back on how I get a working solution if that will help others with this kind of problem. As I said in my original post I can get sound output for everything else except flash output from the browser. Anyway thank you for the suggestions which I will follow up. -- mike c
