[SOLVED] I do not have sound as regular user (Slackware-current)

Didier Spaier · 05-10-2016, 04:25 PM

As a regular user (didier) I am a member of the audio group, as is pulse.

As root I can use alsamixer on fluxbox and listen Hilary Hahn on youtube.com in all cases.

As didier I have no sound (not from youtube and not from pidgin at least) nad get this when trying to run alsamixer if there is no pulse daemon running

Code:

bash-4.3$ LANG=en alsamixer
ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

cannot open mixer: Connection refused
bash-4.3$

If I type "/etc/rc.d/rc.pulseaudio start" then I can run alsamixer but get no sound.

Also "start-pulseaudio-x11" fails if run as didier.

I have read the two articles on SlackDocs but am still lost, and do not feel comfortable running firefox as root even just to hear Hilary.

Could a kind soul provide some guidance on how-to simply set sound on Slackware-current on a laptop? What rc. files should be executable and started? What do i need to write in what config file? What mixer to use on fluxbox?

bassmadrigal · 05-10-2016, 04:41 PM

If you have hdmi out, have you changed your module option to ensure your onboard sound is set as device 0?

Didier Spaier · 05-10-2016, 04:57 PM

I do not have hdmi out (if I understand what that mean), just a basic headphone.

I don't even know what module you are speaking about, sorry I am a complete newbie in that field.

keefaz · 05-10-2016, 04:59 PM

I use pulseaudio in stable 14.1, installed from Slackbuild.org
I had to create ~/.asoundrc with content:

Code:

pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}

ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}

pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}

Then on xfce session setup I enabled pulseaudio at startup.
I believe you could start it manually by just run "pulseaudio" as user in a terminal, I never used the rc script
I use pavucontrol (installed from Slackbuild.org) to set up sound

Ztcoracat · 05-10-2016, 04:59 PM

If you can run alsamixer but get no sound it may be that every column in alsamixer is muted.
Launch alsamixer and use your arrow keys to unmute to each column (master, PCM etc..)

(00) means umuted and (mm) means muted.

Check and see if alsa utilities are installed.
I think the configuration file you want for sound is /etc/asound.conf.

What sound card do you have?

Ztcoracat · 05-10-2016, 05:01 PM

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:har...s_on_slackware

Didier Spaier · 05-10-2016, 05:13 PM

Thanks all, especially keefaz whose post leaded me to the find what was wrong.

At first I ran pulsaudio and got

Code:

 bash-4.3$ LANG=en pulseaudio
E: [pulseaudio] module-protocol-stub.c: Failed to create socket directory '/tmp/.esd-1000/socket': Permission denied
E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-esound-protocol-unix" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.

Permission denied? I did as root "rm -r /tmp/.esd*" and now I can run pulseaudio and hear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1dBg__wsuo as didier.

PS I assume that in slackware-current the file /etc/asound.conf does the same as ~/asoundrc as I see:

Code:

# ALSA system-wide config file
# By default, redirect to PulseAudio:
pcm.default pulse
ctl.default pulse

For the records I do not need to have /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa started. So I will "chmod 644 /etc/rc.d/{rc.alsa,rc.pulseaudio}"

I mark this thread as [SOLVED].

Ztcoracat · 05-10-2016, 09:37 PM

Glad to hear you now have sound.
Any clue what was causing the initialization of the module to fail? (other than the fact that it wasn't loading)

BTW mendelssohn Violin Concerto is a beautiful peace!

dunne · 05-10-2016, 11:33 PM

You are running Linux, so it is perfectly normal not to have sound. Don't worry, be happy! Listen to the birds sing!

Didier Spaier · 05-11-2016, 08:26 AM

@Ztcoracat: a directory /tmp/.esd-<number> was owned by root and it seems that pulse should be able to write there. I will investigate further later (too busy to do it now).

@dunne: be happy, both alsa and pulseaudio are available at least for FreeBSD according to this.

Also, in my country house I hear birds all day, but I posted at night when they were sleeping.

Ztcoracat · 05-11-2016, 04:15 PM

Quote:

@Ztcoracat: a directory /tmp/.esd-<number> was owned by root and it seems that pulse should be able to write there. I will investigate further later (too busy to do it now).

Ok, that's fine; when you have the time.