lost sound {done}

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Hi all,

everything ran ok, at least as far as I remember.

Last time sound was there in VirtualBox and dosbox.

Latest changes were the installation of the "DVD" programs and a newer version of softmaker freeoffice (in chroot).

The best I could get was a very damped&muffled sound with speakers on full volume from exaile while playing with exaile settings.
I tried with startup task&services, but was not successfull.

Where to start checking on corrupt or invalid settings?

Thanks.

[DidierSpaier]

pavucontrol, if not already done.

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Unfortunately, no, that is not the cause...

Thanks anyway.

[gapan]

Does sound work if you create a new user and log in with that?

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No,

unfortunately, a new user does not get sound as well.

I will check further during weekend...if I find time

Thanks so far.

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I am just trying to find out where things go wrong.
Here the startup services:


Anything missed or too much starting?

When trying to configure Pulseaudio, it seems not to be started ...

Thanks.

[DidierSpaier]

Disable alsa, alsa-oss and pulseaudio. See the note on the top of /etc/rc.d/rc.pulseaudio.

Then type in a terminal

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pavucontrol

if need be.

When you start a session, pulseaudio with automatically start for that user. You can check that there is a running instance of pulsaudio typing in a terminal:

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ps -C pulseaudio

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Hi Didier,

thanks so far.

The command returns:

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jpg[~]$ ps -C pulseaudio
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
 1295 ?        00:00:09 pulseaudio
 1440 ?        00:00:01 pulseaudio

But still no noise...

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So,

after uninstalling LIBFFDAO, timidity and devedeBackup
and searching for settings in alsamixer and pavucontrol I managed to direct output to "internal audio" and now sound is back.

To whatever reason alsa & pulseaudio were always trying to direct sound to a device which is not an audiocard.
So when I went away form "HDMI" to internal sound it works.

Exaile plays, Video from Youtube play with sound and other "noise" is there as well.

No idea why and when it wet wrong...

Thanks anyway.