On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:25 PM, phanisvara das wrote:
since he's using KDE anyway, why not use pulseaudio instead? it's the default for the big DEs, and in my experience it doesn't screw up one's system anymore, as it used to in the beginning.
mostly, at least for me, it simply works. specially if you install pavucontrol, an interface for all hard- and software audio channelsl on your machine.
Yes probably. But as he is not using pulseaudio and I have no experience with it, I was only speaking of what I know and what works for me.
I am not sure if adding an extra layer which happens to bring new useful features is always the best solution to a problem.
Anyway Mike has now two solutions to try, either with or without PA. What works for him and fits him at the end of the day is only what should matter.
Regards,
I was unsure what was meant by trying to set up without KDE in the way? I
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Cédric Girard <girard.cedric@gmail.com>wrote: presumed that I could only run the chrome browser within a D.E. in order to test the problem of flashplayer running a video with sound output? It was not clear to me how to do that unless I had a different D.E. running (i.e. not KDE) or window manager within which to test it? Presumably I can't test from a text console, or can I? - apart from the command which works from a Konsole terminal within KDE as I originally posted: aplay -D plughw:0,7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav So presumably I need to set this into either ~/.sound or /etc/alsa.conf and try to test from a text console as: aplay -D /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav and if that works then the default channel will have been set as the HDMI channel and then switch back to trying from KDE ? Certainly if I can't get that to work as a solution and re-enable KDE then of course I can follow the wiki advice on setting up pulseaudio and testing that route for a possible solution. I will report back on how I get a working solution if that will help others with this kind of problem. As I said in my original post I can get sound output for everything else except flash output from the browser. Anyway thank you for the suggestions which I will follow up. -- mike c