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I'm having one hell of a time with the audio on my machine hope someone can help...
(edit: forgot to mention, installed packages: pulseaudio-alsa, pulseaudio-gconf and paprefs, using i3 WM and SDDM. Switching to i3 and SDDM are the biggest recent changes I made before this started, although I did pacman -Syu at some point around then too)
Here's what I'm experiencing:
Start up my machine, and usually watch some videos and play some video games.
After things have been running for a while (anywhere between 30 mins and a few hours) I'll quit my game, load up a different video, or do something else that involves quitting an application that plays audio.
From this point on, any new application that are opened (including new tabs in any web browser) will not play audio, even if other applications are currently playing audio.
I haven't been able to reproduce the issue reliably.
I've tried examining the output of "pacmd list", and I thought I had found some differences yesterday between when its working and when its not, bot today the output is different when audio isnt working than it was yesterday. (actually, I just checked again, and now it is the same as yesterday). I can post the output from when its working vs when its not working if that helps diagnose anything. The only differences that seemed significant is that there is a second module called "module-alsa-card" listed after the sound stops working, two new sources are listed for what I believe are my headphones and mic plugged in the rear panel, and a new card shows up which I think is the onboard audio. It almost seems like pulseaudio is taking over my soundcard when I stop using it, and in doing so prevents audio from playing.
There are a couple of times when it just started working again, without me doing anything at all. I'm really losing my mind over this, any advice is welcome!
Last edited by beizhia (2015-05-28 05:15:19)
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