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While I was trying to improve my alsa settings and make the alsa play concurrent streams I was messed up something and now my debian after bootup dont have any sound.
Actually when I test alsa alsa is working but when I test pulse pulse isnt working I mean
That is not problem I want to throw out pulse from my installation but my favorite audio player Clementine when I try to play it with Alsa audio sink skip 40 songs because of device busy resource not available. I tried with lowering buffer output on Clementine but it doesnt help.
Muting actually happen when I'm going from application to application specially when I use alsa output on one and after I stop that app and start pulse output on other all sounds go muted.
Also I have problem with flash player which also get muted and sometimes I just need to stop other apps that use sound and restart flash video for it to start working. but sometimes that doesnt help, like on coursera.org. I have few courses taken there and now I cant hear the sound of lecture which is really hard because I need to turn on captions and read them while monitoring programming problems.
I tried everything and audio just doesnt want to work on coursera.org.
Anyway I think that problem with flash is that it use Alsa audio sink and that when it is in use by some other audio or video application it cant access it. So I stop other apps and play flash. Anyone ahve idea how to make flash work with pulse ?
btw I'm on Xfce how to get access to gconf on Xfce ?
I have uninstalled pulseaudio and still have problems most noticeably I have problem with flash and alsa.
it doesnt want to play any sound with alsa after I uninstalled pulseaudio. When I shut all aplications that use alsa it still dont want to play sound on flash.
Can on someway force flash to work with alsa ?
Also problem with clementine that use gstreamer stays, it skips many songs when play over alsa audio sink saying resource is busy.
How to fix these problems with gstreamer and Alsa ? What data should I post here ?
#pcm.!default {
# type hw
# card 0
#}
#
#ctl.!default {
# type hw
# card 0
#}
pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
type pulse
# If defaults.namehint.showall is set to off in alsa.conf, then this is
# necessary to make this pcm show up in the list returned by
# snd_device_name_hint or aplay -L
hint.description "Default Audio Device"
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
Basicly if you want to use pulse+alsa it is important to chose type pulse as plugin for alsa and so on that way when application that use alsa want to use soundcard it will not steal audiocard from other applications that use it via pulse but will relay back to pulseaudio server via pulse plugin to output playback.
So on that way there is no conflict between alsa and pulse and pulse basically take all responsibility for playback of audio.
If you try to not make default output device for alsa be pulse plugin the playback will work with some players but with some it aint.
I leaved commented lines so that you can get back on old way of alsa handling sound by just uncommenting them and commenting out those with pulse plugin
I fit into this problem but all that I needed to do was:
* in the gui program "pavucontrol"
* on the "Output Devices" tab
* depress the green tick button next to the device I want everything to use by default, called "Set as fallback"
So everything but vlc was using the wrong device, somehow. It'd be great to really see the sound system as a bunch of signal flows. Good luck!