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On 12/30/2016 03:44 PM, Mick wrote: |
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> On Friday 30 Dec 2016 12:12:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> On 12/30/2016 12:04 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> On 12/29/2016 03:21 PM, Mick wrote: |
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>>>> Hi All, |
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>>>> My sound has been behaving erratically for a while now, probably since |
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>>>> pulseaudio started being shipped with various desktop applications. |
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>>> I had many similar issues years ago. I solved them by doing the following: |
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>> Oh, forgot to mention that I also deleted the ALSA custom configuration |
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>> files: |
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>> rm ~/.asoundrc |
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>> rm /etc/asound.conf |
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>> It's recommended to not have them, unless you actually need them. |
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> Thank you Nikos, I followed your advice above but the darn thing is still not |
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> working as it should. The interaction of pa with alsa is anything but aligned |
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> with the way my brain works and with how alsa used to work. |
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Another thing I did was put this in the USE flags in make.conf: |
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pulseaudio -alsa |
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and then do a: |
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emerge -auDN --with-bdeps=y @world |
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That is, globally disable ALSA and enable PA. This makes sure that |
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programs will use PulseAudio instead of ALSA. This prevents the issue |
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where PA changes your ALSA mixer settings as the same time as an ALSA |
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program tries to do the same, resulting in things getting FUBARed. |
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Unfortunately, portage is missing a feature where you can disable one |
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USE flag only if another is available. So it's not possible to disable |
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"alsa" only if the package also has a "pulseaudio" flag. That means if |
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you have packages that only support ALSA, you need to enable the "alsa" |
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USE flag for that package in package.use. This includes |
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media-sound/pulseaudio itself! So package.use needs at least: |
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media-sound/pulseaudio alsa |
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There's other packages where this is needed. My list in package.use: |
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media-sound/audacity alsa |
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media-libs/libcanberra alsa |
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dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin alsa |
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media-sound/audacity alsa |
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In general, if a package doesn't support PA and "alsa" is needed to make |
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it support sound output, then it needs an entry in package.use. |
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