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tacchinotacchi

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Registered: 2014-08-18

Posts: 32

[SOLVED]Can't remove LADSPA Multiband EQ from audio devices

Hi all. I was trying to equalize pulseaudio, to overcome some wine sound problems. That didn't work. Now I am trying to remove the audio device that was created by the EQ, but  I can't.

What I did to install the EQ

1. followed instructions here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … #Equalizer (also installed pavucontrol, but the options written in the wiki page weren't present)
2. installed pulseaudio-equalizer from AUR.

What I did to uninstall the EQ
1. Removed  python-pyqt4, pavucontrol, and removed the modules from /etc/pulse/default.pa
2. uninstalled pulseaudio-equalizer from AUR.

this is my /etc/asound.conf now:

# Use PulseAudio by default
pcm.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
 hint {
  show on
 #description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
  }
}

ctl.!default {
   type hw
   card 0
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
}

# vim:set ft=alsaconf:
#pcm.card0 {
 #   type hw
  #  card 0
#}
#ctl.card0 {
  #  type hw
   # card 0
#}

Thanks in advance if you have any clue.

EDIT: pulseaudio-equalizer pulls shw-plugins as a dependency. Removed it, get normal sound at login screen (gdm), get no sound after login. All audio devices disappeared.
start-pulseaudio-x11 says "unable to start daemon". How can I get further information?

Last edited by tacchinotacchi (2014-08-22 23:43:23)

emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

Posts: 1,570

Re: [SOLVED]Can't remove LADSPA Multiband EQ from audio devices

Did you delete ~/.config/pulse or at least looked what configuration is in there? Also check where pavucontrol stores its configuration. Start PA in verbose to see what is going on. Run 'fuser -v /dev/snd/*' and 'aplay -lL' after login.

Edit: Out of curiosity, which plugin is used as an equalizer from the swh-plugins package? I only see dj-eq-1901. Instead of an eq I would recommend trying a multiband compressor.

Last edited by emeres (2014-08-22 14:34:21)

tacchinotacchi

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Registered: 2014-08-18

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED]Can't remove LADSPA Multiband EQ from audio devices

Found a solution. ~/.config/pulse was still trying to load shw-plugins. Just removed it.

emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

Posts: 1,570

Re: [SOLVED]Can't remove LADSPA Multiband EQ from audio devices

Please mark the thread as solved then.