On 11/23/2017 07:04 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On 11/23/17, Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11/23/2017 01:59 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
I ended up removing pulseaudio but couldn't get alsa to work either,
so I now have a sound-less system just like in my AMD 386 running OS/2
back in 1993 before the SoundBlaster 16 arrived.
If ALSA isn't working, then PulseAudio won't either since it requires a
functioning audio device.
Sound originally worked.... on the system's default analog audio output.
It was trying to get the audio-over-HDMI part working which messed up
the config.
And as far as I know, there isn't a "rebuild this system's audio
config" bash script.
Something like HP's HPLIP that scans the hardware at the lowest level
and begins configuring everything.
Not to mention the apparent lack of a set-default-audio-device.sh
script that allows you to effortlessly change the audio device when
there's more than one (eg the built-in-one + an external USB audio
device).
If there's something like that, I'd like to know about it. Perhaps
this could be a job for the LSB project?
Just thinking aloud...
FC
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Perhaps I should elaborate: On my system, I have a MB with a sound
output. I also have an NVidia video card that also contains a sound
decoder with an HDMI output jack. With this combination, AND
PulseAudio, I can get simultaneous sound (near the computer with
the MOBO sound output) and video on both the local monitor and the
TV from the NVidio card, AND sound on the TV from the NVidia card
also, via the hdmi connection. It may take some serious fiddling
around with the possibilities in PA, but it CAN be done.
I cuss out PA, but I don't think any other app can do this.
--doug
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