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No system sounds=grayed out, crackling sound
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:39 pm
by lumio83
Hi. I am new user of LMDE2013 and i have problem with pulseaudio. System sounds are grayed and also test speakers sounds do not work. I am experiencing also crackling/noise playback through Pulseaudio output under VLC. Sound card is standard Realtek ALC888.
Re: No system sounds=grayed out, crackling sound
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 7:55 pm
by rpr-nospam
Regarding the crackling playback from VLC the following was helpful for me:
Edit
/etc/pulse/default.pa file and replace
with
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load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0
Then restart /usr/bin/pulseaudio from command line using this command:
I also don't have system sounds on LMDE x64 with Cinnamon. I tried some suggestions from http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=104761 but to no avail.
Could you post some screenshots regarding this issue? Or at least the version of gnome-control-center package installed on your system:
-- rpr.
Re: No system sounds=grayed out, crackling sound
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:07 am
by rpr-nospam
Finally I've got system sounds on LMDE x64 with Cinnamon.
I've found some helpful hints on a Debian forum ([url]http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=75040[/url]). First, check you have the following packages installed:
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$ sudo apt-get install gnome-session-canberra libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk3-module libcanberra-pulse sound-theme-freedesktop
Then change the following settings in
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf (I've got this from an Ubuntu machinge with the same hardware):
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flat-volumes = no
default-fragments = 8
default-fragment-size-msec = 10
deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 1
and restart pulseaudio with
Finally, enable system sounds in GNOME (for the current user):
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$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.sound event-sounds true
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.sound input-feedback-sounds true
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.sound theme-name 'LinuxMint'
The last line sets the sound theme. You probably have 'LinuxMint' and 'freedesktop'.
Now you can try to play a sound from a theme:
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$ canberra-gtk-play -f /usr/share/sounds/LinuxMint/stereo/desktop-login.ogg
If you get the sound then you can try to logout/login to check the sounds with real events.
Hope this helps.
-- rpr.
Edit: libcanberra-pulse package added
Re: No system sounds=grayed out, crackling sound
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 4:23 pm
by lumio83
Thank You for your suggestions, will try that later, unfortunately i dont have LMDE currently installed. I will try it in next few days.
Re: No system sounds=grayed out, crackling sound
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:52 pm
by lumio83
Hi, today i have tryed installing LMDE 201204 and updating it to actual UP6. System sounds works ok. Only test speaker sounds does not work.
Re: No system sounds=grayed out, crackling sound
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 7:30 am
by rpr-nospam
lumio83 wrote:Hi, today i have tryed installing LMDE 201204 and updating it to actual UP6. System sounds works ok. Only test speaker sounds does not work.
According to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645845 the
libcanberra-pulse package is required for the test speakers dialog to work in gnome-control-center. It solved the issue in my case.
I wonder why the libcanberra-pulse package is not installed automatically with gnome-control-center. Maybe some of the libcanberra* packages doesn't have the all dependences set correctly.
Edit: I've found out that the [url=http://packages.debian.org/jessie/gnome-core]gnome-core package[/url] depends on libcanberra-pulse. gnome-core is installed with GNOME Desktop environment but not in LMDE. I'd say that LMDE developers could fix this as LMDE uses many components from GNOME (e.g. gnome-control-center) but without installling gnome-core and its dependences. Also, Debian maintainers could fix this -- see [url=http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=563382]Debian bug 563382[/url].
-- rpr.