On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:09:07 -0500 Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 21:49:17 -0500 > Doug wrote: > > > It may take some serious fiddling > > around with the possibilities in PA > > My most annoying PA experience was it doing something > a bit like that all by itself. All I did was apply > updates one day, and suddenly only about half the > media apps on my system were able to make sound. > > After days of trying to figure this out, I finally > found that pulse had decided, all by itself, that > some apps should be using the analog out and > other apps should be using the HDMI output. When > I plugged some speakers into the analog out > on the computer, the sound for the "silent" apps > showed up on those speakers. > > Another few days of beating it over the head and > using every single sound mixer app I could find to > tell it to use the HDMI output for everything and > I finally got sound back. [ .... ] With all that trouble : did you try to move the contents of ~/.config/pulse/* to somewhere else, then do something like restart pulse? If yes: did it help? And I just had a look at the files in /etc/pulse - the editing of these settings seem to be non-trivial, for me at least ... Regards Wolfgang _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
