On Mon, October 29, 2012 9:39 pm, Richard Bown wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:59:05 +1100 > Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Does anyone have any thoughts on why the following is happening? >> >> Using Debian wheezy on an intel board with built in HDA chipset. >> (Notebook >> sound card) >> >> I was unable to start jack. It seemed like the problem might have been >> because pulse was running so I killed pulse with "pulseaudio -k". That >> didn't help. I installed pulseaudio-module-jack and configured >> /etc/pulse/default.pa to include >> >> load-module module-jack-sink >> load-module module-jack-source >> >> restarted pulseaudio with pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio and it attempted to >> start jack server but was not able to. At that point I was unable to get >> pulseaudio to start at all or jack so I decided to reboot in case it was >> a >> kernel oops. >> >> After rebooting pulseaudio still would not start. I tried a couple of >> options but in the end I had to run "pulseaudio --system -D" as >> superuser. >> After doing that jackd would run from qjackctl but there are not >> pulse-sink/source connections in jack probably because pulse is running >> as >> superuser but I'm not 100% on the exact reason for this behaviour. I can >> see that pulseaudio is running with "ps aux". >> >> If recent feedback on LAU list anything to go by it seems that I'm not >> the >> only one who has encountered issues similar to this recently. >> >> >> >> -- >> Patrick Shirkey > > > Patrick are you using jack to connect the onboard HDA to an app using jack > and > then to the jack-source module ? The jack-source/sink connections don't even appear in qjackctl. > If so you need to unload the pulse alsa module for the Intel device, so > that > the system inputs and outputs appear when using the jack connection in > qjackctl. I will look at that tomorrow. I thought from previous experience that pulse was able to automatically reconfigure itself if the jack modules were installed. Either way I never had to run pulseaudio as root before to get the jack sink/source connections to load in jack. Seems like something has been borked in Debian Wheezy. > I managed to get to the stage of everything looking good with jack > connections, > but didn't get incoming audio to the jack-source module. I suspect that > problem > may have been with the app I was using. > > meterbridge is very useful for checking connections with jack connect > jack_lsp works pretty well too ;-) -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd
