Re: Internal speaker set as default playback, not my usb soundcard.

[Andrew C <countfuzzball@xxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent, thanks for that tip, Phillip! Got it fixed now.

Put "autospawn = no" into $HOME/.config/pulse/client.conf, killed PA as you suggested and everything worked as expected, alsamixer controls the volume (.asoundrc works perfectly again) and mplayer/flash/MOCP plays through my usb card.

Andrew.

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Philipp Überbacher <murks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:48:22 +0100
Andrew C <countfuzzball@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Speaking of .asoundrc, I had set up my like so (which predictably no
> longer works, even though my usb card is still at index 0):
>
> pcm.!default {
>     type            plug
>     slave.pcm       "softvol"   #make use of softvol
> }
>
> pcm.softvol {
>     type            softvol
>     slave {
>         pcm         "dmix"      #redirect the output to dmix (instead
> of "hw:0,0")
>     }
>     control {
>         name        "PCM"       #override the PCM slider to set the
> softvol volume level globally
>         card        0
>     }
> }
>
> I doubt this would cause a mess up (even so, even *that* is no longer
> working, my soundcard ignores any changes made by alsamixer).
>
> At this point, would I guess there's some pulseaudio weirdness
> happening? Any ideas how I can use alsa straight up, unless I've
> somehow been using a pulseaudio-alsa wrapper this entire time.
>
> To my mind, it makes absolutely no sense why stuff would be playing
> out of Card 1, and not Card 0. Or at least why that has suddenly
> changed to be the default with this upgrade.
>
> Andrew.

I'm not sure whether you get direct alsa access while PA is running.

You could disable pulseaudio and try again. I have configured PA
so that it is only ever started manually by me and I simply use
'pulseaudio --start' and 'pulseaudio --kill'. However, depending on
your distributions setup it might be a PITA to stop PA and keep it
stopped. You can use 'pulseaudio --check' to see whether it runs, it
returns 0 if it runs, 1 otherwise. Or just use 'pulseaudio --kill' and
see whether it throws an error or succeeds because something started PA
again. This can happen because PA is set to respawn or because some
program started PA on startup. That's a PITA I don't want to deal with,
hence my entirely manual setup.

Regards,
Philipp

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