How enable system sound Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” x64 Xfce?

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How enable system sound Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” x64 Xfce?

Post by Garik »

I did a clean install of Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” x64 Xfce and everything is fine, the system is very liked, but was not able to enable system sounds.
Was looking for a solution in Internet, but there is outdated information.
Tell me, please, how to enable system sounds in Mint 17.2 Rafaela x64 Xfce without dancing with timbrel?
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shengchieh

Re: How enable system sound Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” Xfce?

Post by shengchieh »

Funny, I recently install and sound works out-of-the-box. You shouldn't need to do anything.

Click the sound icon on your panel and just make sure it is not mute.

Chances are, you are missing a driver for your sound card. (Others, correct me if wrong) To find the sound card, open up a terminal and do

lspci

or

lshw

Then search for

linux [sound card] driver

Worst case ask here and maybe someone can help you. We will need the name of your sound card.

Sheng-Chieh
Garik

Re: How enable system sound Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” Xfce?

Post by Garik »

Motherboard msi P67A-GD65 B3:
Chipset integrated by Realtek® ALC892 + HDMI GeForce 750 Ti
both work fine.

lspci|grep Audio:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
02:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fbc (rev a1)


The system sound (/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/audio-volume-change.oga) is heard only when change the volume in "PulseAudio volume control (pavucontrol)"->Output devices.
Other sounds in system are not heard.
shengchieh

Re: How enable system sound Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” x64 Xf

Post by shengchieh »

If the sound even works, then you have a software problem - possibly with PulseAudio (PA). In the past (3+ years ago), PulseAudio had a bad reputation of messing things up - probably better now.
You may be be having a PA problem - don't know - this problem is over my head.

If terminal commands aplay and arecord work - you can try it once - use the manpage.

man aplay
man arecord

Then you need to narrow the bug in PA or something. Some PA doc links are

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/ ... ls/6494/1/ (PulseAudio Tames the Linux Audio Zoo, Part 1)
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/ ... ls/6496/1/ (PulseAudio Tames the Linux Audio Zoo, Part 2)
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup (PulseAudio: The Perfect Setup)
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/ (PulseAudio wiki)

PA home page is

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/

If I had this problem, I probably remove PA and be done with it - probably not the best solution. Maybe someone else can help?! Otherwise ask the PA geeks (see community section of PA home page).
Sorry, not much help.

Sheng-Chieh
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