[SOLVED] Pulseaudio limits to 4 audio outputs

Amanda S · 2014-03-23 23:54:14

I installed pulseaudio on a previous install and didn't run into any problems. I installed it right after the base install, in this order:

* Base system install
* alsa-utils
* all xorg's
* nvidia lib32-nvidia-libgl
* pulseaudio

This resulted into a perfectly working audio environment.

On this install I forgot to install pulse right after the nvidia's drivers, so I installed it after KDE was installed.
After reboot, no sound was made when I deleted a file, for example. I suspected something was wrong.

After that, I opened Steam. It worked, but VLC had no sound at all (when opened along with Steam). I then opened Audacity and no audio interface was available.
I re-installed pulseaudio, pavucontrol and paprefs, but after reboot the same problem appeared. After that, I removed those 3 packages said before, rebooted, and when booted back I installed them again, and rebooted.

Now it looks like it's working OK, but I can only use 4 programs that need audio. I don't remember having this limitation at all before today, I had Steam + VLC + Youtube + Audacity + Ardour working fine at the same time. Is this limitation OK? If not, I'll simply re-install the system and do it right

Last edited by Amanda S (2014-03-24 09:48:59)

Amanda S · 2014-03-24 09:48:24

Solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1396250

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#1 2014-03-23 23:54:14

[SOLVED] Pulseaudio limits to 4 audio outputs

#2 2014-03-24 09:48:24

Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio limits to 4 audio outputs

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