Pulse Audio, Lost Sound

jowilkin · 2009-07-08 22:19:16

I'm using Gnome with Pulse Audio and was working well for a while. Earlier today I was playing a .wmv file and my whole desktop locked up forcing a hard reboot of the computer. When I got gnome back up I had no sound and can't figure out why.

Volume control thing on the taskbar shows that sound is unmuted and at full volume. The pulse audio app shows the same thing. If I open up alsamixer it shows only 1 channel which is also unmuted and at full volume.

Any ideas to troubleshoot this? Thanks.

djszapi · 2009-07-10 22:10:57

Please check what 's the difference between your config and that 's in the archwiki. What application cause this hard reboot ? What's in the syslog, xorg.log ?

Alsa:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALSA

Pulseaudio:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio\

Or if you wouldn't like to check it, restore your backup

jowilkin · 2009-07-29 00:35:47

Well I (sort of) solved this.... I reverted back to plain ALSA and it works fine

The hard reboot was caused while watching a .wmv video. I don't remember precisely now in what program, I don't have vlc installed on this computer so I'm pretty sure it was Totem.

Can't find anything on the wiki pages to help me, but thanks for your suggestions.

djszapi wrote:

Or if you wouldn't like to check it, restore your backup

Well I do back up all my data religiously, but don't even know what to restore to make this one work short of a full image (which I don't have). I have snapshots going back a few months but not sure which file(s) need(s) to be rolled back.

I'm happy with ALSA for now, I never got much out of Pulse, just installed it out of curiousity.

Last edited by jowilkin (2009-07-29 00:38:51)

djszapi · 2009-07-31 21:02:36

Yeah, i use ALSA too instead of PulseAudio, and I've read that more times it's a better solution, but so much people, so much behaviour

geoisis · 2009-07-31 23:42:30

why don't you try OSSv4 instead ?

jowilkin · 2009-08-01 00:21:16

geoisis wrote:

why don't you try OSSv4 instead ?

Not sure that I need it with ALSA working fine. I will most likely get bored one day and try it out, but at least for right now, I will probably stick with plain old ALSA.

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#1 2009-07-08 22:19:16

Pulse Audio, Lost Sound

#2 2009-07-10 22:10:57

Re: Pulse Audio, Lost Sound

#3 2009-07-29 00:35:47

Re: Pulse Audio, Lost Sound

#4 2009-07-31 21:02:36

Re: Pulse Audio, Lost Sound

#5 2009-07-31 23:42:30

Re: Pulse Audio, Lost Sound

#6 2009-08-01 00:21:16

Re: Pulse Audio, Lost Sound

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