2011/6/9 Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> > > OK, so now you have set your "normal" sound card to Off. Is this intended? > I thought it was one, or the other. Can I have both ?t the same time? What for? > > Normally I'd expect you to want to keep both cards available but only > use the one you want at any given time. > I didn't even know there were 2 cards in that laptop when I bought it. I only want the HDMI to work properly so I can listen to some music in good conditions. Why would I want to use the "bad" audio card? > > Anyway, Firefox is able to output sound, but is that sound going to your > normal sound card or to your HDMI? > My guess is it goes to the "normal" one, as I barely hear anything with the volume at 100%. Any other way to know for sure? > > If your normal sound card then firefox is bypassing PA and accessing the > h/w directly. THis can cause other apps to not be able to ouput. > > In your listing, I do not see any "Sink Input" (i.e. playback streams), > so that suggests no app is actually playing audio via PA at the time you > grabbed it. I would suggest that something is not configured correctly > at that level (e.g. are you apps using alsa output and is alsa not > configured correctly to use the PA plugin? If possible configure the > apps to use PA directly rather than going via the alsa plugin) > > I don't know what alsa is (and I don't know much more about pulseaudio ...) Why are there 2 different programs? And how are the other applications supposed to know which one to use? I have looked at the settings in GMusicBrowser, RythmBox and VLC and didn't find anything that seems related to alsa or pulseaudio; so I don't know how to configure these applications. Marie-No?lle -- Une galerie photos, un blog ... pourquoi pas ? Webmaster en herbe<http://www.webmaster-en-herbe.net/> Parcourez les C?vennes ? ma fa?on : C?vennes Plurielles<http://www.cevennes-plurielles.com> Et toutes mes autres publications ? partir de ma page d'accueil g?n?rale<http://www.marie-noelle-augendre.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20110609/262e5c29/attachment-0001.htm>
