Sound not working properly

sk8harddiefast · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2009 Posts: 335 Location: athens

Dear forum I have problem with alsa. When I try to use two different programs for audio (for example vlc and youtube) always the second one has no audio. When I see a video on youtube and I want the same time to listen music from vlc, vlc plays the song but is like muted. I don't hear anything from vlc.
Another problem is that when I connect the headphones on the laptop, I listen the music from the headphones but music is not muted from the normal speakers. They play all of them.
How can I do my sound just work as all the other normal computers?

This is my .asoudrc on my home directory

ng-cat · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2014 Posts: 4

x86 or amd64?
is pulseaudio installed?

sk8harddiefast · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2009 Posts: 335 Location: athens

64bit architecture. No. I didn't install pulseaudio yet. Is necessary???
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ng-cat · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2014 Posts: 4

pulseaudio may conflict with the programs that runs directly through the alsa (like flashplugin). from the information provided, this is not the case.
can you start the youtube and run

sk8harddiefast · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2009 Posts: 335 Location: athens

Well. I installed pulseaudio and now I have sound on youtube and vlc

But I still have problem with jack. When I insert the headphones, music not mute from speakers.
Yes. I can do it manual from mixer but this should be done automatically. Any idea how can I do it?
Also other problems. Now sound FN keys not working. Playing a dvd I listen a noise instead of sound and Ijust don't have workable sound at all!!!
Pulseaudio, alsa, oss, can someone to help to fix all this? I am completely freaked out. I made almost everything to work and I still have problem with my sound

I only ask to have a properly working sound

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