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On 22 June 2014 21:51, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 22/06/2014 18:53, Mick wrote: |
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> > Are you using PA and how would you suggest I go about installing and |
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> > configuring it (if I must) for minimal interference with my audio usage? |
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> Why don't you rather peg skype at the last version know to work with |
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> alsa, and mask everything newer? |
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I could do just that, but for how long? Eventually, older version(s) |
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of skype could/would break and I will then be forced to upgrade. |
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> If it were me, I'd switch to PA because I wanted to, not because skype |
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> made me. And I don't think you'd be running any additional security risk |
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> - skype is rather likely to be riddled with bugs that never get fixed |
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> anyway... |
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> OK, my cynic side is showing, but you get the drift |
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I've switched to PA and I'm now rebuilding umpteen packages inc. |
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firefox and chromium! O_o |
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The switch was mostly successful, except for: |
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After a reboot all worked fine and the pulseaudio migration appeared |
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to be uneventful. The morning after things went sideways. The HDMI |
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sound device was selected as the default audio and not analogue sound |
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was available. For some reason the default beep was loud enough to |
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wake up the neighbours! PCM, headphones and other controls had |
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disappeared and some new monitor-* controls were available. |
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This was fixed by adding: |
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load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,0 |
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load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0 |
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in /etc/pulse/default.pa |
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I have not yet tried the microphone in Skype to see if the above combo |
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is correct. This is what aplay and arecord show: |
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$ aplay -l |
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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** |
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card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 0: 92HD73C1X5 Analog [92HD73C1X5 Analog] |
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Subdevices: 0/1 |
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Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 |
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card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] |
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Subdevices: 1/1 |
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Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 |
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$ arecord -l |
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**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** |
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card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 0: 92HD73C1X5 Analog [92HD73C1X5 Analog] |
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Subdevices: 1/1 |
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Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 |
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card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 2: 92HD73C1X5 Alt Analog |
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[92HD73C1X5 Alt Analog] |
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Subdevices: 1/1 |
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Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 |
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$ aplay -L |
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null |
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Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) |
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pulse |
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PulseAudio Sound Server |
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default:CARD=MID |
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HDA Intel MID, 92HD73C1X5 Analog |
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Default Audio Device |
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sysdefault:CARD=MID |
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HDA Intel MID, 92HD73C1X5 Analog |
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Default Audio Device |
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front:CARD=MID,DEV=0 |
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HDA Intel MID, 92HD73C1X5 Analog |
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Front speakers |
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surround40:CARD=MID,DEV=0 |
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HDA Intel MID, 92HD73C1X5 Analog |
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4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers |
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surround41:CARD=MID,DEV=0 |
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HDA Intel MID, 92HD73C1X5 Analog |
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4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers |
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surround50:CARD=MID,DEV=0 |
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HDA Intel MID, 92HD73C1X5 Analog |
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5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers |
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surround51:CARD=MID,DEV=0 |
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HDA Intel MID, 92HD73C1X5 Analog |
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5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers |
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surround71:CARD=MID,DEV=0 |
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HDA Intel MID, 92HD73C1X5 Analog |
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7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers |
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hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0 |
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HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 0 |
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HDMI Audio Output |
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The other thing that puzzled me was that the second jack for the |
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headphones is muted every time I re/start an application and the |
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volume setting is zeroed - e.g. |
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I start mplayer - no sound. |
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I unmute the second headphone jack and raise the volume setting - sound is back. |
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I stop and then start again mplayer - no sound. |
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I unmute the second headphone jack - sound is back. |
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and so on. I cannot understand why the second jack is muted. The |
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first jack stays unmuted in each case. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |