'Twas brillig, and Marie-No?lle Augendre at 10/06/11 11:07 did gyre and gimble: > I succeeded only once to do this (I have no time to go from one terminal > to the other) and Firefox was still running at the time; the result was: > UTIL. PID ACC?S COMMANDE > /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: marie-noelle 7023 f...m plugin-containe > marie-noelle 18217 F...m aplay > > So, with Firefox off, I tried with a longer .ogg file, and gets: > UTIL. PID ACC?S COMMANDE > /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: marie-noelle 7023 f...m plugin-containe > marie-noelle 18217 F...m aplay > (with some horrid sounds) If you don't have time, you could simply prefix the the aplay command with "sleep 2s;" to give yourself a little more time to prepare :D But random data (which is what .ogg files look like to aplay) is as good as anything for testing (even if it does sound horrible!) to that is all fine :) > So it means the alsa configuration is 'broken'? Yes. It means the "default" alsa device is not mapped to the alsa-pulse plugin. We detail this here: http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications (see the section starting "If you want to make the PulseAudio driver the default....") That said, this is really something your distro should configure for you, so I would very much go and complain to them and tell them that "your default alsa device is not configured to be the alsa-pulse plugin." Hope that helps. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
