Re: [Notion-general] There is no sound

[Thomas A. <t.d...@gm...>]

Environment I am using is Debian with kernel 2.6.34.1. Notion version
is the latest one from git ( time stamp on Sat Mar 12 00:26:18 2011
+0100). The display manager is slim, version 1.3.1. Before posting
this sound problem, I'd almost removed everything about gnome library,
such as gnome-desktop-environment, gnome-session, and gdm3.

Now I try installing pulseaudio and executing command

    ps -ef | grep pulseaudio

returns process

    /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog

but I still have no sound. Checking alsamixer, it shows the Master and
PCM are at max (100<>100).

Playing video with mplayer in terminal (e.g. tty 2), sound is not
working. Also, after reinstalling gnome-session and rebooting the
system, sound is still not available.

I think my problem is that I do not know where to check e.g. logs,
etc; how to setup sound/ mixer in notion.

So generally what e.g. sound mixer is launched when you use notion?
And where (log files) to check if it is running or not?

Thanks for help.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Etan Reisner
<de...@un...> wrote:
> GNOME is a desktop environment, notion is a window manager.
>
> GNOME runs all sorts of things in the background for you that notion does
> not.
>
> In this case GNOME was most likely running some sort of sound mixer/etc.
> application which was controlling the volume of your system speakers
> automatically.
>
> You will need to find a similar application (or even just the GNOME one)
> and see if you can get your speakers activated correctly (my guess is that
> they are either muted or have their volume levels set to zero).
>
>    -Etan
>