On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 11:33:36 +0100 François Patte <francois.patte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You must have run alsainfo.sh after you corrected your system > > because this is not what it showed. It showed that the default was > > pcm (analog). For some reason, at start up, your system is > > defaulting to the iec958 (digital) interface on your nvidia card at > > startup. > > Not the nvidia card: I recently installed this card and the problem > existed before. That's good information. > > > What > > happens if immediately after startup you run? > > aplay -D plughw:0,0 [some wav file here] > > It has to be a wav file as there is no decoding in aplay. You > > should get sound without making any changes to configuration. > > Yes, that works So, it's only a configuration issue. The hardware is being recognized and initialized correctly, but not set to analog as default. > > I suspect, because of the signature at the front, that those files > > are recreated by pulse at each start. I think *you* have to create > > the configuration files in your ~/.config/pulse directory. > > > > Try this: > > cp the /etc/pulse/client.conf file to ~/.config/pulse. > > Edit the home directory file and change the line > > ; default-sink = > > to > > default-sink = hw:0,0 > > This does not work. It was a guess, using alsa conventions. I couldn't find any pulse examples that set the sink so I could see what convention they use. You could try variations on this, like hw:0, or device = hw:0, etc. It might be a name though, I'm not sure. > > That should do the right thing at next boot. > > > > If it doesn't work, run > > pulseaudio --dump-conf > -----------------------------------------------------------------> > daemonize = no > fail = yes > > Then paste the output and the contents of /etc/pulse/default.pa > > -----------------------------------------------------------> > #!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF > # > # This file is part of PulseAudio. Both of these look fine. > Is there somewhere a comprhensive list of configuration files for alsa > and pulseaudio? I am not aware of such a list, though it might exist. I think the configuration file for alsa is /etc/asound.conf For pulse, the files is man pulse-client.conf and man pulse-daemon.conf would be the configuration files. As far as I can tell, there is no reason for the behavior you are experiencing from the information you have provided. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that the realtek ALC892 is part of a video card, and thus is automatically hard coded to digital output by the video driver. I would think there would be lots of complaints if that was happening, because it wouldn't be only you affected. Do you have another sound card you can try? If not, there are cheap stereo USB sound devices that sell for around a dollar on ebay. The sound of these is surprisingly good. If everything works correctly when using a dedicated sound device, then it probably has something to do with being part of a video device. I'm tapped out. You could try opening a bugzilla ticket against pulseaudio to see if anyone there has an idea. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
