On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Martin McCormick <mar...@x.it.okstate.edu> wrote:
<snip> > After purging and restoring pulseaudio and all the > applications that needed it, I started looking at .pulse in my > home directory as I didn't put it there to begin with. I > expected to find it empty and there was the cause of all the > trouble. A listing of that directory is: > > 43ec7b6e5a01418f517b363500001654-card-database.tdb > 43ec7b6e5a01418f517b363500001654-default-sink > 43ec7b6e5a01418f517b363500001654-default-source > 43ec7b6e5a01418f517b363500001654-device-volumes.tdb > 43ec7b6e5a01418f517b363500001654-runtime > 43ec7b6e5a01418f517b363500001654-stream-volumes.tdb > > When all files are present, the trouble happens. If I > remove them, it works. Pulseaudio soon rebuilds all of them and > the trouble returns. I have quickly read the man page for > pulseaudio and for the pulse-daemon.conf file and there is not a > word about these files and how to manage them but I think that > pulseaudio is confused about this sound card and is putting the > wrong tdb file in place. > > That is why I say I am closer but I don't have it fixed > yet as the rebuild occurs within seconds after removing > .pulse/*. If you remove .pulse, pulseaudio kindly puts it back > also and then repopulates it. I want to disable as little as > possible as probably only one of the files is the villain. > > Thanks very much for your help as it made me look more closely > at what was there. I have been having problems with PA in experimental/unstable. They don't seem to be exactly the same problems, but perhaps there is some connection. Have you looked in detail at the PA config with "pactl list"? In my case, I needed to add the card and the sink with something like "pactl load-module module-alsa-card" and "pactl load-module module-alsa-sink" (not at home, so I don't have the exact commands). In general pactl was a very helpful utility that I had not noticed until the fine folks at #pulseaudio on freenode pointed it out to me. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=-gAoGtCZmJqqNOnJLgFdkHC6PX7Va7cu21jHAc+sA @mail.gmail.com
