On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:30:33PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I read this with great interest because I lost sound some time ago and > don't know anything about it, or how to control it. > I'm running Xubuntu 14.04.4, on a brand-new ASUS Z97 Deluxe mobo, with both > HDMI monitors and onboard Intel sound chips. The monitors have no > speakers, so the HDMI channel is useless, but there are speakers connected > to the mobo and /proc/sound/cards reports them as device 1. I hadn't heard > a peep in ages unless I boot into Windoze, which plays sound just fine. > > So I ditched every installed package with "pulse" in the name where doing > so did not threaten to remove the world. I tried an old mp3 file with the > command > aplay -D hw:1 -f S16_LE -c 2 -r 48000 longfilename.mp3 > and got white noise -- the first peep I've heard in ages under Linux. It > also reported > Playing raw data 'longfilename.mp3' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate > 48000 Hz, Stereo > > Can I do something to make this sound not white noise? >
Try decoding your mp3 with mpg123 or mplayer. aplay doesn't know what the format is, and is pushing the raw bitstream out. Try aplay -L to get a list of devices that alsa knows about. mplayer will take "-ao alsa:device=" -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150716205433.gm4...@randomstring.org
