But why would I get different results as root? (see my previous message.) Jason White <jason at jasonjgw.net> wrote: > covici at ccs.covici.com <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote: > > OK, here is what is happening to me with pulseaudio. Normally, I have > > in my /etc/pulse/client.conf spawn=no, and things going to alsa, like > > mplayer work correctly. paplay says connection refused. Now if I > > change spawn=yes, as a normal user both paplay and mplayer think they > > are playing, but they are silent. > > If there's a PulseAudio daemon running at this point, then presumably they're > both using it. If I remember correctly, list-sink-inputs will show you which > applications are connected. > > Obviously you aren't hearing any output, so I would check the default sink to > see where it's going, and also check the volume (as set in PulseAudio) in case > that's an issue. The help text of pacmd should give you the specific commands > to use. > > Gentoo will be configured differently from Debian by default, I suspect. It's > also possible that there are bugs involved (but if you're running the latest > "unstable" Gentoo, that's a risk you're knowingly taking). > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
