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Reasons

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From: Washington

Registered: 2007-11-04

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[SOLVED]Pulseaudio and sound cards

I've been giving pulse audio a go, and it is all working like it should, at least I assume. I get sound at least. But I have an ouboard sound card, and a pci one. The onboard is had-intel and the pci is c-media. When I open the devices, hda-intel constantly is in activity in little amounts, until I start mplayer which then it starts going. But of course there is no sound because the speakers are hooked up to c-media, which never reports activity even when mpd is playing.

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Last edited by Reasons (2009-02-20 06:33:59)

BC

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Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 83

Re: [SOLVED]Pulseaudio and sound cards

pavucontrol should let you choose which device to output to. (I think, I'm not at home so I can't check)

Reasons

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From: Washington

Registered: 2007-11-04

Posts: 572

Re: [SOLVED]Pulseaudio and sound cards

pavucontrol should let you choose which device to output to. (I think, I'm not at home so I can't check)

It doesn't have the card under ouput devices, only input.

EDIT - Disabled onboard audio, still not having the meter move.

EDIT2 - When I move the volume slider in pavucontrol, it does change so I know it is working. I just want to figure out why the meter isn't moving. lol

SOLVED - Make sure to be using mpd-pulse from the aur (which sould be added considering gnome 2.26 is said to be using pulse audio by default), do some
  $ sudo usermod -a -G pulse-access mpd
  $ sudo usermod -a -G pulse mpd
  $ sudo usermod -a -G pulse-rt mpd

and then have mpd use pulse for its audio output. Now just on to mplayer.

Last edited by Reasons (2009-02-20 06:35:12)