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sick_mitch

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Registered: 2015-11-24

Posts: 13

Pulseaudio strange behavior with built-in laptop speakers

It presented some time ago then worked around it but is bothering me.
If I try to reproduce audio trough the defualt setup of pulseaudio it doesn't pass and holds the reproduction of the media on the beginning, any kind of it from youtube videos to navidrome and spotify.
Then I switch the profile of the audio card to another one of the known working profile and then back to the defualt i use it pass trough and get reproduced freely without any more issue for hours. Re-logging reset the problem back.
I'll put a pastebin of info's omitting configuration since I ain't configured anything is pretty much all default.
Any idea on where to look to find out the root of the problem? Info's should be in the runtime of pulseaudio being it fixed via pactl is my best bet but I'm not very deeply into audio side, it ever worked.
Thanks for your time, sick_mitch.

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Last edited by sick_mitch (2025-01-30 19:54:13)

d_fajardo

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Registered: 2017-07-28

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Re: Pulseaudio strange behavior with built-in laptop speakers

I think you should configure default card index. Have a look at ALSA and look for Card Index.

sick_mitch

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Registered: 2015-11-24

Posts: 13

Re: Pulseaudio strange behavior with built-in laptop speakers

I think you should configure default card index. Have a look at ALSA and look for Card Index.

Why you think so? I have to switch profile not card to get the output to work..

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Pulseaudio strange behavior with built-in laptop speakers

Yes switching ALSA devices will not help you here. Could be a quirk of the driver. sometimes also some wonky user state in which case you could try whether removing ~/.config/pulse ~/.pulse folders helps.

FWIW since pulseaudio is not that actively developed anymore you could also check the behaviour on pipewire by installing wireplumber, pipewire-pulse, pipewire-alsa and confirming the removal of pulseaudio in lieu of pipewire-pulse.

Last edited by V1del (2025-01-31 17:11:08)

sick_mitch

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Registered: 2015-11-24

Posts: 13

Re: Pulseaudio strange behavior with built-in laptop speakers

Yes switching ALSA devices will not help you here. Could be a quirk of the driver. sometimes also some wonky user state in which case you could try whether removing ~/.config/pulse ~/.pulse folders helps.

FWIW since pulseaudio is not that actively developed anymore you could also check the behaviour on pipewire by installing wireplumber, pipewire-pulse, pipewire-alsa and confirming the removal of pulseaudio in lieu of pipewire-pulse.

Thanks for the hint but cleaning up dotfiles don't solve it. I'll follow you're advice and switch to pipewire when I will have some time to reinstall. Is pipewire working out of the box for you?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Pulseaudio strange behavior with built-in laptop speakers

There's no need to reinstall, just install the four packages I mentioned. Everything works fine, her, but everything works fine on pulse as well for me, but audio hardware and especially sensing/rate issues are very often also down to the kernel, so might be a kernel bug that could get fixed by 6.13 or you could test the LTS kernel or so.