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lentil

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Registered: 2021-05-27

Posts: 5

Hello pulse is not working [Solved sort of]

I am almost 100% sure the problem is because I have recently install pipewire and then uninstalled it (I ran into a lot of problems that I don't really want to spend time to fix because I don't care about the audio bloat that much).

Anyway, I noticed that my audio display wasn't working on my dwm status bar (I use pulseaudio to display it). And then I tried using pulsemixer I get this:

Failed to connect to pulseaudio: Connection refused

Another odd thing, I don't quite remember what I was doing the first time I saw it, but whenever I just run the command "pulseaudio", it just gets stuck on this:

N: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Disabling timer-based scheduling because running inside a VM.
N: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Disabling timer-based scheduling because running inside a VM.

That should be enough. Basically, I'm on a VM and I uninstalled pipewire incorrectly, please help.

:)

Edit:
Just tested, my audio does in fact exist somehow, it might just be alsa idk, pulsemixer still doesn't work, idk how to test if pulseaudio is working.

Edit:
When playing video on youtube or whatever, it just randomly like flashes a black screen for a very very short amount of time.

Last edited by lentil (2021-06-14 12:00:29)

lentil

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Registered: 2021-05-27

Posts: 5

Re: Hello pulse is not working [Solved sort of]

Oh just realized that the Virtualbox thing is just it running after it finished with the VM things -_-. Forgot that's how programs work on linux if you are using a terminal.

lentil

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Registered: 2021-05-27

Posts: 5

Re: Hello pulse is not working [Solved sort of]

Fixed it, pulseaudio needed to go in my .xinitrc. Sort of wacky, I didn't need to do that before.