Comment 7 for bug 549613

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:40:54PM -0000, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>
> with the normal ubuntu package?

yes, i think so

> > [AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0.
>
> but does it produce any sound? or are you 'just' not able to change the
> volume?

it plays, but i cannot adjust the volume

> in any case, please attach:
>
> a) the full mplayer output, including the full command line

$ mplayer -ao alsa brownian.ogg
MPlayer UNKNOWN-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
control.

Playing brownian.ogg.
[Ogg] stream 0: audio (Vorbis), -aid 0
Ogg file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 96.0 kbit/13.61% (ratio: 12000->88200)
Selected audio codec: [ffvorbis] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg Vorbis)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0.
[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0.
[Mixer] No hardware mixing, inserting volume filter.
Volume: 88 %
[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0.
[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0.
Volume: 85 %
[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0.
[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0.

A: 3.0 (03.0) of 3600.0 ( 1:00:00.0) 0.4%

> b) the contents of /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

this file doesn't exist on my system (only input.conf and menu.conf)

> c) the contents of ~/.mplayer/config

this file is empty:

     # Write your default config options here!