CentOS - May 2017 - CentOS 7 and sound

Hello,

I have a need to get CentOS 7 sound working on a console only machine. X is
not running.

Currently when I try aplay:
 aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect:
Connection refused

aplay: main:786: audio open error: Connection refused


 aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC283 Analog [ALC283 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


So sound is present - I presume pulseaudio is not running as X is not
running,

Can I run audio without X ? Next steps ?
running in an ALSA mode is fine with me - but how?

Thanks,

Jerry

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 02:21:49PM -0400, Jerry Geis
wrote:
> I have a need to get CentOS 7 sound working on a console only machine. X is
> not running.
Are you connecting via SSH or logging in to the console to run these
commands? 

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

>Are you connecting via SSH or logging in to the console to run these
>commands?

I'm actually trying both and get the same error on both.

Thanks,

Jerry