On Mon, 14.09.09 13:04, John Carlyle-Clarke (john at wormdrive.net) wrote: > Hi- > > I have pulseaudio 0.9.15 and alsa 1.0.21 on Archlinux (x86_64). > Everything was working fine, but recently I started getting no sound in > pulse and - when I tried to debug - nothing in Alsa either. I have two > cards - an onboard nVidia device which I don't use, and a PCI > Soundblaster Audigy 2 which I use as my default. The problems may have > coincided with an upgrade of Alsa from 1.0.20 -> 1.0.21 but I can't be > sure. > > I tracked down the exact problem, and it is that every time the pulse > daemon starts, it toggles an SPDIF output flag on my sound card's Alsa > setup. This effectively disables analog audio. I tried deleting the > contents of ~/.pulse in case it was restoring some remembered settings > each time, but no joy. > > If I untoggle that setting after pulseaudio starts, everything is OK > (until next time pulseaudio starts, that is). > > If anyone can cast some light on the problem or suggest something else I > can test, please do! PA is probably simply configuring your card into the SPDIF profile. Use a recent g-v-c or pavucontrol version, got to the "Configuration" tab and select the profile you want to use for your card. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
