Re: No alsa, no alsactl in bookworm distribution?

2023-12-27 Thread Thomas George
Correction: Output was  to headphone. There is a signal for plugged in speaker. Still no sound from speaker. On 12/27/23 09:56, Thomas George wrote: No sound. alsamixer shows card HDA Intel PCH but no driver list.  pulseaudio volume control output shows no signal. What am I missing?

Re: No alsa, no alsactl in bookworm distribution?

2023-12-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 09:56:54AM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > No sound. > > alsamixer shows card HDA Intel PCH but no driver list. > >  pulseaudio volume control output shows no signal. > > What am I missing? > Check to see whether you actually have pulseaudio installed or whether you now ha

No alsa, no alsactl in bookworm distribution?

2023-12-27 Thread Thomas George
No sound. alsamixer shows card HDA Intel PCH but no driver list.  pulseaudio volume control output shows no signal. What am I missing?

Re: A question about alsa(1) and sox(1) internals

2022-07-25 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 8:51 PM John Conover wrote: > The command: > > sox ... sine create 1000 vol -60 dB > > generates a 1 kHz. sine wave at 1 / 1000 full scale. > > Does the low level sine wave still consist of +/- 2^15 steps? > > (i.e., does the volume reduction occur during sine wave gene

A question about alsa(1) and sox(1) internals

2022-07-22 Thread John Conover
The command: sox ... sine create 1000 vol -60 dB generates a 1 kHz. sine wave at 1 / 1000 full scale. Does the low level sine wave still consist of +/- 2^15 steps? (i.e., does the volume reduction occur during sine wave generation, or post generation?) Thanks, John -- John Co

Re: ALSA pcm problem

2022-07-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Of course everything worked > there. > > Rebooted to Debian 11. This reloaded pulseaudio and speaker-test worked. > > Played an ogg file and volume control showed sound was from Alsa plugin > using GP107 High Definition Audio Controller Digital Stereo (HDMI) > > Volu

Re: ALSA pcm problem

2022-07-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Thomas George wrote: > > On 7/8/22 7:30 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Thomas George wrote: > > > On 7/8/22 5:57 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > Thomas George wrote: > > > > > speaker-test fails > > > > Now try > > > > speaker-test -C2 -Dhw:Generic > > speaker-test -C2 -Dfront:Generic > > > > and so

Re: ALSA pcm problem

2022-07-08 Thread Dan Ritter
rship card and HDMI.  Then the output from the onboard card to line out > to the external speakers failed. Still HDMI sound. > > Trying to trouble shoot this I ran alsa nreset which did not report any > problem, then tried speaker-test which failed > > Here is the output of

Re: ALSA pcm problem

2022-07-08 Thread Dan Ritter
Thomas George wrote: > speaker-test fails > > strace speaker-test finds "open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0" No such file or directory What's the output of aplay -L ? Have you tried specifiying one of those devices for speaker-test? Has this ever worked before? If so, when did it stop? -dsr-

Re: ogg123, ALSA and Pulseaudio

2022-05-21 Thread Amn
This conversation touches the core of an issue I am having when trying to get my wireless speaker to work. So my question is, do I need to remove bluetooth.* files in rder t install PulseAudio? Thanks in advance. On 2022-05-18 12:51 a.m., Charles Kroeger wrote: PulseAudio is waning and Pipewir

Re: ogg123, ALSA and Pulseaudio

2022-05-17 Thread Charles Kroeger
> PulseAudio is waning and Pipewire is waxing; > WirePlumber is a session manager for Pipewire. ah, just so, I am glad it is.

Re: ogg123, ALSA and Pulseaudio

2022-05-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Charles Kroeger wrote: > >Note: I'm using Debian/unstable. > > I'm using Bookworm as well. > > I was just happy at first that I had some reliable sound again. but I don't > use my desktop with Bluetooth or headphones as you've described in your > bug report. > > Pipewire is waning and WirePlum

Re: ogg123, ALSA and Pulseaudio

2022-05-17 Thread Charles Kroeger
>Note: I'm using Debian/unstable. I'm using Bookworm as well. I was just happy at first that I had some reliable sound again. but I don't use my desktop with Bluetooth or headphones as you've described in your bug report. Pipewire is waning and WirePlumber is waxing. I'll put it that way.

Re: ogg123, ALSA and Pulseaudio

2022-05-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
PipeWire 0.3. 19 is available, and can > be experimentally used as a substitute for the ALSA userspace library, > PulseAudio, and JACK. Apr 5, 2022 I do not want to use pipewire, because of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=998073 and this is a blocking bug for me. Note:

Re: ogg123, ALSA and Pulseaudio

2022-05-16 Thread Charles Kroeger
from a google search: In Debian 10, PipeWire 0.2. 5 is available, and should not need to manually be installed, as it's usually brought in as a dependency by applications that make use of it. In Debian 11, PipeWire 0.3. 19 is available, and can be experimentally used as a substitute for the

ogg123, ALSA and Pulseaudio

2022-05-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
In the recent past, I could run ogg123 with the alsa device, and the sound was played via Pulseaudio. But this almost no longer works. The cause may be that I had run the latest VLC (3.0.17.4-2). Otherwise I don't see what could have broken the audio system. Using Pulseaudio directly (e.g.

Solved! Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-31 Thread Eric S Fraga
Success! I copied the default.pa file into my local .config and uncommented the line: load-module module-alsa-sink Initially, I tried adding device= options to this line (as the manual suggests) but I could not get the right incantation. Without it, PA found the device just fine as a possible

Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-31 Thread didier gaumet
Le vendredi 31 décembre 2021 à 11:39 +, Eric S Fraga a écrit : > On Friday, 31 Dec 2021 at 11:21, didier gaumet wrote: > > [...] > > but starts enumerating sinks at Sink#12 > > Is this important/relevant?  I know nothing about how PA enumerates > sinks or sources. I mentioned this becau

Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-31 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 31 Dec 2021 at 11:21, didier gaumet wrote: > It seems to me that Alsa recognizes 3 audio cards (Intel, webcam, > Nvidia) while Pulseaudio recognizes 2 audio cards only (webcam, Nvidia) Yes, that's my impression as well. > but starts enumerating sinks at Sink#12 Is

Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-31 Thread didier gaumet
Le jeudi 30 décembre 2021 à 23:33 +, Eric S Fraga a écrit : [...] > Please find the output from pa-info attached.  Also attached is the > output from alsa-info, just in case. [...] Hello Eric, Disclaimer: I am far from knowledgeable in these matters and have never experimented

Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 30 Dec 2021 at 20:59, didier gaumet wrote: > *perhaps* a extensive Pulseaudio report would give a clue > Please run pa-info as a user (not as root) and paste the result here. Hi Didier, Please find the output from pa-info attached. Also attached is the output from alsa-info

Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-30 Thread didier gaumet
*perhaps* a extensive Pulseaudio report would give a clue Please run pa-info as a user (not as root) and paste the result here. > All of my sound configurations are defaults, IIRC. > > I do not (consciously) have any software set up to use alsa.  [...] It's good to know: I do not think

Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 30 Dec 2021 at 14:14, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > By the way, you can try PipeWire as well. Thank you for the heads up on this. It's too early in the Debian release cycle for me to switch to testing from the current stable release (I often do end up switching, after a few months typic

Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-30 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 12/30/21 14:04, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Thursday, 30 Dec 2021 at 13:16, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: >> Try to run (as root) >> >> # alsactl init >> >> and restart the computer. > > Thank you. Tried this. No difference unfortunately. > > As an aside, is it necessary to restart the computer? My

Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-30 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 12/30/21 14:04, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Thursday, 30 Dec 2021 at 13:16, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: >> Try to run (as root) >> >> # alsactl init >> >> and restart the computer. > > Thank you. Tried this. No difference unfortunately. > > As an aside, is it necessary to restart the computer?

Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 30 Dec 2021 at 13:16, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > Try to run (as root) > > # alsactl init > > and restart the computer. Thank you. Tried this. No difference unfortunately. As an aside, is it necessary to restart the computer? My system is typically up 24/7 so I hate rebooting. I d

Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-30 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 12/30/21 02:04, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Wednesday, 29 Dec 2021 at 20:39, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: >> When PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is started can you see >> audio devices on "Configuration" tab? > > Hi Georgi, > > no, that's the problem. The configuration tab only shows the

Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
fundamental question is why does the on-board sound card not appear for this system? All of my sound configurations are defaults, IIRC. >>From what I understand, but I am not sure I understand correctly, > Pulseaudio won't use devices already used by Alsa. So, for example, if > you hav

Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-30 Thread didier gaumet
o be > > played. > > Yes, understood; unfortunately only the single output is available, > either here or in the configuration tab. > > The list of modules itemised via pavucontrol includes alsa so I am > not > sure why I cannot see the devices that alsa knows about. 

Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-29 Thread Eric S Fraga
ther here or in the configuration tab. The list of modules itemised via pavucontrol includes alsa so I am not sure why I cannot see the devices that alsa knows about. It's a mystery (to me, at least). thank you, eric -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.1 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2

Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-29 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
or much of my use. However, it means that I > cannot use headphones plugged in to the box. Alsa lists all the > devices: When PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is started can you see audio devices on "Configuration" tab? > $ aplay -l > List of PLAYBACK Hardware De

pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all

2021-12-29 Thread Eric S Fraga
:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 HDMI Audio Controller [10de:0e1b] (rev a1) Pulseaudio only finds the second of these (speakers in an attached HDMI monitor) which is fine for much of my use. However, it means that I cannot use headphones plugged in to the box. Alsa lists al

Re: ALSA plugins

2021-12-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 25 nov 21, 15:28:45, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > And then someone suggested me to check for dmix and dsnoop, as those plugins > shall overcome that 'application sharing' issue. As far as I recall the dmix plugin (don't know about dsnoop) has some limitations on sampling rates it can work w

Re: ALSA plugins

2021-11-25 Thread Dan Ritter
to use the dmix devices instead of their defaults. This is application-specific; read the manual and look for "ALSA device". -dsr-

Re: ALSA plugins

2021-11-25 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/22/21 1:04 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: The dmix plugin is installed by default. $ aplay -L|grep dmix dmix:CARD=HDMI,DEV=3 dmix:CARD=Generic,DEV=0 The dsnoop plugin is installed by default: $ arecord -L|grep dsnoop dsnoop:CARD=Generic,DEV=0 dsnoop:CARD=Generic,DEV=2 You configure them either

Re: ALSA plugins

2021-11-22 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/21/21 9:33 PM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 11/21/21 20:57, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Hi all, I was recently told that ALSA doesn't normally allow sharing a soundcard with two applications, but there are two ALSA plugins, dsnoop and dmix to share capture and playback respectively. I

Re: ALSA plugins

2021-11-21 Thread Dan Ritter
Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Hi all, > > I was recently told that ALSA doesn't normally allow sharing a soundcard > with two applications, but there are two ALSA plugins, dsnoop and dmix to > share capture and playback respectively. I spent some time in searching the > web f

Re: ALSA plugins

2021-11-21 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 11/21/21 20:57, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Hi all, > > I was recently told that ALSA doesn't normally allow sharing a soundcard > with two applications, but there are two ALSA plugins, dsnoop and dmix > to share capture and playback respectively. I spent some time in >

ALSA plugins

2021-11-21 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi all, I was recently told that ALSA doesn't normally allow sharing a soundcard with two applications, but there are two ALSA plugins, dsnoop and dmix to share capture and playback respectively. I spent some time in searching the web for possible info on how to install or how to che

Re: ALSA device names.

2021-11-10 Thread David Wright
cumentation? > > > > No surround22, surround23 ... surround39 evident here. How does ALSA > > derive or find the names and numbers? > > you hopefully know that sourround21 stands there for 2+1 and 40 stands for 4 > outputs > Also it is explained in documents like for examp

Re: ALSA device names.

2021-11-09 Thread deloptes
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > surround21:CARD=Set,DEV=0 > and > surround40:CARD=Set,DEV=0 > aren't atomic names.  Is the syntax and semantics explained in > documentation? > > No surround22, surround23 ... surround39 evident here. How does ALSA > derive or find the name

ALSA device names.

2021-11-09 Thread peter
re already. OK, although surround21:CARD=Set,DEV=0 and surround40:CARD=Set,DEV=0 aren't atomic names. Is the syntax and semantics explained in documentation? No surround22, surround23 ... surround39 evident here. How does ALSA derive or find the names and numbers? What is meant by CARD=S

Re: Trying to debug alsa xruns

2021-05-03 Thread Michael Lange
ug? > something else?). (...) Ok, I now compiled a vanilla kernel with the suggested debug flags enabled. As suggested I tried # echo 29 > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/xrun_debug This gives me a lot of messages like this: [ 1794.582338] ALSA: PCM: [P] hw_ptr skipping: (pos=13200, delta=2908,

Trying to debug alsa xruns

2021-05-02 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, I have been experiencing audio xruns when playing back audio or video files for a while now and thought I might try to get some debugging information to find out what's wrong (hardware fault? driver bug? something else?). According to https://www.alsa-project.org/wiki/XRUN_Debug this requires

Re: ALSA bug? Laptop headphone output depending on speaker channel setting

2020-12-29 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 6:49 PM Brendon Higgins wrote: > > After some more searching I figured out what the difference was: the > "Loopback Mixing" setting in alsamixer. It's apparently disabled by > default, but for some reason mine had migrated to enabled. Enabling it > seems to dictate that

Re: ALSA bug? Laptop headphone output depending on speaker channel setting

2020-12-29 Thread Brendon Higgins
On Saturday, December 26, 2020 3:48:15 A.M. EST Jan Girke wrote: > Remove the hdd/ssd from the laptop and use a spare to downgrade until > you find the version it worked and then compare the two states. I did more-or-less this, but instead using Debian live-CD images on a USB stick, and after som

Re: Re: ALSA bug? Laptop headphone output depending on speaker channel setting

2020-12-25 Thread Brendon Higgins
Joel Roth wrote: > Do you have pulseaudio running on your system? > > It is a layer above ALSA, and could be related to your > issue. I do have PulseAudio typically running, but when I run pasuspender alsamixer the behaviour appears the same as before. I can also run pasuspender apla

Re: ALSA bug? Laptop headphone output depending on speaker channel setting

2020-12-24 Thread Joel Roth
t all, although muting that does also > cause the headphones to mute. > > It all used to work fine, but probably a couple of years ago it started > having > this behaviour. I suspect it was a kernel update, or maybe ALSA library - I > can't be certain - and put it off ho

ALSA bug? Laptop headphone output depending on speaker channel setting

2020-12-24 Thread Brendon Higgins
bably a couple of years ago it started having this behaviour. I suspect it was a kernel update, or maybe ALSA library - I can't be certain - and put it off hoping the bug might just get fixed... Any suggestions? I looked at the hdajackretask app, but no idea where I would even start there. Thanks in advance, Brendon

Re: Sound (Alsa/PulseAudio) not working for ONE USER ONLY (addidional info)

2020-09-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 9/23/20 10:02 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am currently running Stretch, with alsa and pulseaudio. This box has three users.  My wife and daughter both get sound through Firefox, as well as 'play filename.mp3'.  Neither method works for my login.  When using 'aplay filename

Sound (Alsa/PulseAudio) not working for ONE USER ONLY

2020-09-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am currently running Stretch, with alsa and pulseaudio. This box has three users.  My wife and daughter both get sound through Firefox, as well as 'play filename.mp3'.  Neither method works for my login.  When using 'aplay filename.mp3' all users get static. Some backg

Re: how to build package alsa-utils?

2020-05-29 Thread tomas
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:33:39AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: [...] > It all looks good. wohoo! Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: how to build package alsa-utils?

2020-05-29 Thread D. R. Evans
to...@tuxteam.de wrote on 5/29/20 8:08 AM: > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 07:54:51AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: >> I am trying to build alsa-utils from source, but am clearly missing something >> obvious. >> >> 1. I executed: >> apt-get source alsa-utils >>

Re: how to build package alsa-utils?

2020-05-29 Thread tomas
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 08:13:22AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: [...] > What a wonderful, quick response. Thank you so much. You're most welcome :) Here's a reference to read and poke around, far more complete (and correct) than my quick shot: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/ch04

Re: how to build package alsa-utils?

2020-05-29 Thread D. R. Evans
to...@tuxteam.de wrote on 5/29/20 8:08 AM: > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 07:54:51AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > > This is a Debian package. One of the things Debian does for you is > to unify all that buildery. So first > > - install the package "build-essential" &g

Re: how to build package alsa-utils?

2020-05-29 Thread tomas
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 07:54:51AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > I am trying to build alsa-utils from source, but am clearly missing something > obvious. > > 1. I executed: > apt-get source alsa-utils > and that seemed to run OK, generating: > > drwxr-xr-x 23 n7dr n7dr

how to build package alsa-utils?

2020-05-29 Thread D. R. Evans
I am trying to build alsa-utils from source, but am clearly missing something obvious. 1. I executed: apt-get source alsa-utils and that seemed to run OK, generating: drwxr-xr-x 23 n7dr n7dr4096 May 29 07:41 alsa-utils-1.1.8 -rw-r--r-- 1 n7dr n7dr 27076 Apr 9 2019 alsa-utils_1.1.8-2

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 00:21:31 +0200 Kaj Persson <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: > Thank you for all answers and advices. A silly question, perhaps: Do I > need take any special steps for the transform, or is just e.g. > >    apt-get --autoremove remove pulseaudio > > sufficient, and the

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Kaj Persson
On 2019-06-04 at 23:47, Joe Dennigan wrote: Dan Ritter writes: Kaj Persson wrote: I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 June 2019 02:02:59 pm deloptes wrote: > Renato Gallo wrote: > > I personally use pulse on chrome and firefox without problems of any > > sort > > same here but I'm not using chrome at all. I use from time to time BT > audio and pulse comes handy the

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote: > As does firefox-esr 60.6.3esr-1 in buster, it seems.  I didn't know about > about:buildconfig before.  Handy. > > I don't know the exact story, but I've heard pieces of it over the last > year or two.  Apparently at one point upstream decide

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread deloptes
Renato Gallo wrote: > I personally use pulse on chrome and firefox without problems of any sort same here but I'm not using chrome at all. I use from time to time BT audio and pulse comes handy there. I am not sure if alsa can handle this.

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: >> >> [1] The problem with "modern" is that it carries with itself a value >> judgement, as a stowaway, so to speak. If you ain't "modern", >> you're a luddite or something. That kind of thing makes communication >> hard. It's difficult to listen, with all that shouting. > > Never for

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 12:27:30 +0200 wrote: (...) > What miffs me is that no-one in this thread seems to really care > enough to go check the sources. But then, some still seem to care > enough to go ballistic and complain loudly. > > As I said, I'm happy with my Firefox having no sound (it ha

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 08:34:59AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 12:34:49PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > I hope I am believed when I say that firefox in unstable (67.0.1) has > > --enable-alsa in about:buildconfig. And sound works without pulseaudio. > >

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread tomas
t; When I do youtube stuff in google-chrome-stable, it just works, and I've > never had to mess with anything other than un-muting and raising the > volume through alsamixer. [...] For me, it's cclive or youtube-dl. I don't like others watching me watching videos ;-) >

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Renato Gallo
ent: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 2:43:31 PM Subject: Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 10:12:54AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > If you don't care about those things -- or are in for some > fiddling -- by all means, drop Pulse, and tell us others about >

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
't a plus, either. When I do youtube stuff in google-chrome-stable, it just works, and I've never had to mess with anything other than un-muting and raising the volume through alsamixer. At least not on my last couple systems. (Before those, I had a system with on-board audio and a sou

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 12:34:49PM +0100, Brian wrote: > I hope I am believed when I say that firefox in unstable (67.0.1) has > --enable-alsa in about:buildconfig. And sound works without pulseaudio. As does firefox-esr 60.6.3esr-1 in buster, it seems. I didn't know about about:

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread tomas
gt; believed what other people say ;) > > I hope I am believed when I say that firefox in unstable (67.0.1) has > --enable-alsa in about:buildconfig. And sound works without pulseaudio. Ah, thanks. At last someone doing something :-) Should we meet somewhere I owe you a $BEVERAGE (whithin my financial possibilities, that is ;-) Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Brian
On Wed 05 Jun 2019 at 12:27:30 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Anyone out there care to download the Debian source package and > check what the compile options are? This *must* be visible in the > Debian-specific patches, right? Not necessary. Use about:buildconfig. -- Brian.

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Brian
ssions about that, but still here audio in > firefox without PA never ceased to work. > Actually I always wondered if anyone really tried or if everyone just > believed what other people say ;) I hope I am believed when I say that firefox in unstable (67.0.1) has --enable-alsa in ab

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:20:58 +0200, Michael Lange wrote: Georgi Naplatanov wrote: If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use an ALSA device at the same time on your computer. really? Here I can play back a video in firefox and play another video No, I don’t thi

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 12:13:54PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 11:33:15 +0200 > wrote: > > > > Now don't expect your distro maintainer's to continue indefinitely > > maintaining your firefox's port in a non-standard configuration. > > > > sure, I don't expect anyt

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 11:33:15 +0200 wrote: > Now don't expect your distro maintainer's to continue indefinitely > maintaining your firefox's port in a non-standard configuration. > sure, I don't expect anything in particular ;) But I believe I can perfectly wait with taking action until it

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 05:38:18 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661 > > That was two years ago. yes, I remember the discussions about that, but still here audio in firefox without PA never ceased to work. Actually I always wondered if anyone really t

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 11:17 +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 15:55:34 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Kaj Persson wrote:  > > > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the > > > Pulseaudio is > > > by de

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 15:55:34 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Kaj Persson wrote: > > > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is > > > by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the execut

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:20:58AM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 22:51:31 +0300 > Georgi Naplatanov wrote: [...] > > If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use an ALSA > > device at the same time on your computer. >

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 22:51:31 +0300 Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 6/4/19 10:24 PM, Kaj Persson wrote: > > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is > > by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which > > is the be

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 15:55:34 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > Kaj Persson wrote: > > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is > > by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which > > is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudi

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Joe
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 10:06:23 +0200 wrote: > > [1] The problem with "modern" is that it carries with itself a value >judgement, as a stowaway, so to speak. If you ain't "modern", > you're a luddite or something. That kind of thing makes communication > hard. It's difficult to listen, with all

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread deloptes
humbert.olivie...@free.fr wrote: > Depending on your needs. PA is good at resampling easily different audio > flows at different samplerate. Much easily that what one can do with ALSA. > > Olivier Yes and integration with other subsystems like bluetooth and dbus

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 10:51:31PM +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: [...] > PulseAudio is some kind of mixer/proxy between ALSA and desktop > applications. In modern GNU/Linux OSes it's discouraged to remove/not > using PulseAudio. Because... Reasons. What is a "modern G

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 07:40:30AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 22:51 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > [...] > > If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use an ALSA > > device at the same time on your computer. Even some applications > >

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread Michael Howard
On 04/06/2019 20:24, Kaj Persson wrote: I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be the one and only audio system? Are there any

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 22:51 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: [...] > If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use an ALSA > device at the same time on your computer. Even some applications > support > PulseAudio only. Like Firefox, that was the reason I relen

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread humbert . olivier . 1
> ALSA itself is capable enough that I don't see the point of > an audio server like pulseaudio. Depending on your needs. PA is good at resampling easily different audio flows at different samplerate. Much easily that what one can do with ALSA. Olivier

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
humbert.olivie...@free.fr writes: >> If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use >> an ALSA device at the same time on your computer. > > This is untrue. ALSA provides dmix for mixing different audio flows. > > Olivier What's more, the default

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread Joe Dennigan
Dan Ritter writes: > Kaj Persson wrote: >> I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by >> default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is the >> best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be the one and

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread John Conover
One thing you might try is to edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, and set: flat-volumes = no This will fix most problems with pulseaudio, and alsa will work pretty much as expected. John BTW, automatic volume control was added in Windows 10. This was the era that pulseaudio was developed

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread humbert . olivier . 1
> If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use > an ALSA device at the same time on your computer. This is untrue. ALSA provides dmix for mixing different audio flows. Olivier

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 6/4/19 10:24 PM, Kaj Persson wrote: > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by > default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is > the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be the > one and only

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread Dan Ritter
Kaj Persson wrote: > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by > default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is the > best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be the one and > only audio system? Are there

Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread Kaj Persson
I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be the one and only audio system? Are there any serious disadvantages doing so? /Kaj

Re: mpd cannot find default alsa soundcard; sudo -u mpd aplay -D default /Side_Right.wav results in desired audio output.

2018-12-25 Thread toogley
Hey, > So, try this /etc/mpd.conf: > > group "audio" > > audio_output { > type"alsa" > name"ALSA sound card" > } thanks. I also added the audio group to the mpd line of /etc/passwd. ==> works now. Thank you!

Re: mpd cannot find default alsa soundcard; sudo -u mpd aplay -D default /Side_Right.wav results in desired audio output.

2018-12-25 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/25/18 9:40 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 03:29:32PM +0100, toogley wrote: ==> any ideas? This does not look right: # groups mpd mpd : audio This means that mpd's primary group is not audio. /etc/mpd.conf audio_output { type

Re: mpd cannot find default alsa soundcard; sudo -u mpd aplay -D default /Side_Right.wav results in desired audio output.

2018-12-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 03:29:32PM +0100, toogley wrote: > ==> any ideas? This does not look right: > # groups mpd > mpd : audio This means that mpd's primary group is not audio. > /etc/mpd.conf > > audio_output { > type"als

mpd cannot find default alsa soundcard; sudo -u mpd aplay -D default /Side_Right.wav results in desired audio output.

2018-12-25 Thread toogley
Hey, * i run a updated debian stretch * mpd cannot find the default alsa soundcard. * sudo -u mpd aplay -D default /Side_Right.wav -> results in the desired audio output. * also, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1372042#p1372042 doesn't help * switching to pulseaudio does

Re: problem with alsa setting

2018-11-26 Thread deloptes
Long Wind wrote: > my sound card works fine in stretch > aumix seems ok, it shows line/mic/cd ... > > but alsamixergui doesn't show those controls > it shows PulseAudio, how to get it to work? > > Thanks! don't know alsamixergui but alsamixer -c 0 shows the alsa audio card

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