[SOLVED]pulseaudio was installed by Gnome3, my sound no longer works.

Nimbus · 2011-05-05 16:49:51

Previously, I was using ALSA, and alsa-oss.

Upon installing Gnome3, which forced Pulseaudio to be installed, my sound no longer works through either my headphones or my main speakers.

I cannot quite figure out what is wrong. It would seem like the only way around this would be to de-install gnome-session using the -Rc option and forcibly remove pulseuaudio in the process. The only issue with this is that cheese and some other apps stop working as a result.

I run Arch on a 4,1 Macbook (White Plastic Model) if that helps.

EDIT: It turns out Pulseaudio is to crackly on my system so I removed it and it's dependancies. I'm probably not going to use Gnome3 all that much anyway.

Last edited by Nimbus (2011-05-05 17:55:58)

olsmokey · 2011-05-05 17:24:27

Gnome-3 will automatically install pulseaudio, but you still need to configure it. Try reading through https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio .

dbus is required to run it -- by default, dbus does NOT automatically start at boot. You can configure it to do so in /etc/rc.conf (under DAEMONS), or just start it manually by running:

# /etc/rc.d/dbus start

Pulseaudio itself needs to be started. I don't use GDM, but I would expect that since GNOME3 requires it, pulseaudio should be started automatically with X11.
You also may need to screw around with gstreamer, if you use it for anything.

As an aside, if you want to say fuckit and do without Gnome3, you can uninstall gnome-session and still use cheese and all your other GTK apps without a problem.

Hope that clears it up some.

Inxsible · 2011-05-05 17:28:30

Have you searched the forums? There is already a thread discussing this issue.

Nimbus · 2011-05-05 17:35:58

You guys beat me to it, I found the thread.

I turns out all I had to do was Run Pulseaudio from the command line for it to work. I added it into the autostart.sh file for my openbox desktop and it seems to work fine.

Inxsible · 2011-05-05 17:51:55

Good. Please mark as solved.

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#1 2011-05-05 16:49:51

[SOLVED]pulseaudio was installed by Gnome3, my sound no longer works.

#2 2011-05-05 17:24:27

Re: [SOLVED]pulseaudio was installed by Gnome3, my sound no longer works.

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Re: [SOLVED]pulseaudio was installed by Gnome3, my sound no longer works.

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