[SOLVED] Several problems with PulseAudio under Xfce4

MatejLach · 2012-09-02 16:12:31

So, yesterday I sat down to set up pulseaudio on my machine (I want to try and use it for my 'networked-audio system' of the future).
I was aware of the fact that pulseaudio does have several problems. particularly with ALSA-compatibility, but I was ready to give it a shot anyway and hope for the best.

Of course that did not happen...

I installed everything (including packages for backward compatibility with ALSA) and while sound still works (what a relief), I have several problems now:

1. Pulseaudio does NOT save it's volume levels - Volume levels for Pulseaudio are gone after next reboot, I was trying to look into this, but found no workable solution.

2. Strange behaviour of apps when changing volume - This is REALLY annoying.
When I am in a music app for example (e.g. Banshee) and am trying to increase/decrease volume, the current sound (song) will 'mute' when I am moving the slider and only 'resume' after I release it.

Any ideas are much appreciated,
Thanks,

SOLVED: It seems that all my alsa channels were automatically muted when pulseaudio was first enabled.
Strange, Is this because pulseaudio wants you not to use alsa or something? :-)

Last edited by MatejLach (2012-09-02 19:30:45)

hadrons123 · 2012-09-02 16:18:55

1. you will need alsa-utils package for Pulseaudio to save the volume levels after next boot.

vacant · 2012-09-02 16:19:42

I'm using just alsa now but when I used pulseaudio I used "pacmd" to set suitable volumes. Something like

pacmd set-default-volume (and then volumes in the range 0-65000?)

anyway, "pacmd info" will have the correct command.

MatejLach · 2012-09-02 19:31:21

vacant wrote:

I'm using just alsa now but when I used pulseaudio I used "pacmd" to set suitable volumes. Something like
pacmd set-default-volume (and then volumes in the range 0-65000?)
anyway, "pacmd info" will have the correct command.

I was not aware of this, very useful - Thank you.

Last edited by MatejLach (2012-09-02 19:31:53)

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#1 2012-09-02 16:12:31

[SOLVED] Several problems with PulseAudio under Xfce4

#2 2012-09-02 16:18:55

Re: [SOLVED] Several problems with PulseAudio under Xfce4

#3 2012-09-02 16:19:42

Re: [SOLVED] Several problems with PulseAudio under Xfce4

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Re: [SOLVED] Several problems with PulseAudio under Xfce4

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