Thanks for your response Matt. Am 31.10.20 um 20:39 schrieb Matt Garman: > My understanding is that PulseAudio never explicitly *needs* a desktop > environment for running or configuration. Yes - but in Debian PulseAudio is started per user when the desktop interface comes up. > Like many traditional Unix > daemons, the config is stored in text files on the filesystem. When i have a look in ~/.config/pulse then i find a couple of tdb files. 24K Nov 1 09:47 6f0e4728711645b09a25d9a8fbf78e3b-card-database.tdb 1 Nov 1 16:30 6f0e4728711645b09a25d9a8fbf78e3b-default-sink 1 Nov 1 16:30 6f0e4728711645b09a25d9a8fbf78e3b-default-source 24K Nov 1 09:47 6f0e4728711645b09a25d9a8fbf78e3b-device-manager.tdb 12K Nov 1 09:58 6f0e4728711645b09a25d9a8fbf78e3b-device-volumes.tdb 12K Nov 1 15:32 6f0e4728711645b09a25d9a8fbf78e3b-stream-volumes.tdb 256 Okt 25 09:08 cookie After installing the package tdb-tools i could get a readable output of this files with tdbdump The content is not a simple text file but a key/data database that looks like { key(26) = "alsa_card.pci-0000_04_05.0" data(448) = "B\04NL\00\00\00\0Btanalog-input-mic;input-microphone-1\00r\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00Ntanalog-input-mic;input-microphone-2\00r\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00Ntanalog-input-linein\00r\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00Ntanalog-input-aux\00r\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00Ntanalog-input-video\00r\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00Ntiec958-stereo-input\00r\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00Ntanalog-output;output-amplifier-on\00r\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00Ntanalog-output;output-amplifier-off\00r\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00Ntanalog-output-mono;output-amplifier-on\00r\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00Ntanalog-output-mono;output-amplifier-off\00r\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00Ntiec958-stereo-output\00r\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00NNN" } Now i have no sound again and the interesting question is where to search for the difference to the last login? The directory ~/.pulse does not exist in Debian 10. > Most of these are in /etc/pulse, at least for system-wide config and Yes - this seems to be static since installation of the package. > defaults. Per-user config goes in ~/.pulse/ or ~/.config/pulse. I > believe there may be other paths the daemon searches for configs, but > /etc/pulse is a typical starting point. > > For my Raspberry Pi, I just ssh into it and do all the configuration > using a text editor. I think you are configuring /etc/pulse/client.conf and /etc/pulse/daemon.conf ? The tdb files seems to be generated dynamically. > Alsa definitely has commandline tools and > text-based GUIs for things like volume adjustment and playback (e.g. > amixer, aplayer, alsamixer). I don't know offhand if PulseAudio has > similar text-based tools, but I'd be surprised if it didn't! ALSA is much better known in contrast to PulseAudio. Cheers karsten _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss