On Mon 10 Sep 2012 at 22:13:06 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > I can confirm that my userid is in the cdrom and audio groups. I haven't > checked the cable connections yet, but I plan to do that tomorrow. > But the problem seems to be more systemic. I can't seem to get aplay > to work on a .wav file. It runs, and it generates messages on the > screen, but no sound.
aplay shoud give just one or two lines saying what it is playing, so your diagnosis looks correct. > pulseaudio is a "depends" (not a "recommends") dependency of gnome-core; > so I can't de-install it. As for killing the daemon, gnome automatically > re-spawns pulseaudio if I kill the daemon. I have to stop gnome. > But even then, no output from playing audio CDs and no output from aplay. > Yet, gnome can generate sounds. Maddening. A quick and reliable way of disabling pulseaudio permanently is with update-rc.d pulseaudio disable But it seems less likely to be at the root of your problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120911133343.GZ24280@desktop
