Re: [gentoo-user] tip ou pulseaudio

[Francisco Ares]

2015-01-07 15:55 GMT-02:00 Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com>:

> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Jacques Montier <jmontier@×××××.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I had the same problem some months ago.
> > Adding the line
> > set-sink-port alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
> analog-output-lineout
> > to /etc/pulse/default.pa solved the problem.
>
> Please don't top-post.
>
> That card (pci-0000_00_1b.0) is specific only on your system. It will
> probably don't help Francisco.
>
> To see the card name, do:
>
> pactl list cards
>
> To set the default output and input (it's listed in the above command), use
>
> pactl set-card-profile CARD PROFILE
>
> You can edit /etc/pulse/default.pa, but it's not really necessary. The
> configuration gets stored in $HOME/.pulse, for example:
>
> cat $HOME/.pulse/$(cat /etc/machine-id)-default-sink
>
> will show you the default sink.
>
> Regards.
> --
> Canek Peláez Valdés
> Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
>


Thanks, Canek,

As you have predicted, the setttings from Jacques didn't work for me, but
you both provided a good starting point.

Nowadays as a regular user, pulseaudio comes up with all digital outputs,
and no analog ones. I have to login as root in a TTY console (no X, plain
old text mode) and issue a command like this:

pulseaudio -D --system

Then I am able to log in as a normal user and use Xorg (KDE) with sound
enabled and working as expected.

I have learned a few "pactl" commands, and checked the correct syntax for
my card, the correct profile and port from this

If I set up "/etc/pulse/default.pa" with these values and simply star
pulseaudio as root, it doesn't complain about the configuration (I have had
a few complaints for some tipos). Then, after killing this instance and
logging as a regular user, all available audio outputs on KDE are marked
either with a warning sign or an error sign, and no sound comes up.

But, again, you both gave me what I asked, a tip. Now I think I can go on
with the docs and a few more trial-and-error tests.

Thanks a lot!
Francisco