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Switched to Pulseaudio

by Julien on March 22nd, 2009

Following to an issue with esound not playing GNOME system sounds, I have decided to give Pulseaudio a try.

Installing the pulseaudio package pulled all necessary dependencies, including the esound compatibility plugin. I have added local users to the pulse-rt group, as recommended. After this, all worked perfectly except the main channel was muted and its volume set to 0% after rebooting.

I have found that not loading the module-device-restore does fix this issue, strangely. If you encounter the same problem, try and comment out the line load-module module-device-restore in /etc/pulse/default.pa.

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9 Comments
  1. Adiwan permalink

    Thanks!
    It is really annoying after booting.
    Sure… for a laptop it is kind of handy that the sounds are off.
    Especially you are in a lecture.
    But all the day at home it is not very comfortable.

  2. scimmia permalink

    Hi, I’ve some problems with pulseaudio. It seems that the mixing does not work.
    If I’m on a youtube page watching a video, banshee cannot play any sound… I need to kill firefox and rerun it.

    Any idea?

    • Julien permalink

      Actually, I have the same problem… It is clear that Flash Player is to blame, but as far as I can find for now, Flash 10 should have fixed these issues.

      I will enquire and let you know whether I can find something.

      Cheers,
      Julien

    • Julien permalink

      Please vote for the bug so that we get a chance to get it fixed in Flash Player : http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1154

  3. scimmia permalink

    I don’t know if you solved the issue, but libasound2-plugins solved for me.

    ciao!

    • Julien permalink

      Hi,

      No, I haven’t yet fixed this issue (I already have libasound2-plugins installed). Are there any other steps to follow?

      Cheers,
      Julien

    • scimmia permalink

      Actually I dont know… I noticed that running iceweasel from command line it complained about a file and it was in that (missing for me) package.

      ah, I’m using flashplayer 10, directly from adobe.

      (I saw there was a libflashsupport… It seems I dont need it… but you can try…)

  4. scimmia permalink

    ah, my gnome is configured to use pulseaudio everywhere.

    • Julien permalink

      Thanks, I have finally made it work.

      For those having the same issue: install libasound2-plugins, add the following to /etc/asound.conf (create this file if it doesn’t exist):

      pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}
 
ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}
 
pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}

      And set GNOME sound preferences to use pulseaudio server.

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