Hi,
the mixer launches pulseaudio if not running then thies to connect to
it,it enventually falls back to alsa backend on failure
On Thursday 26 June 2014 11:06, Mick wrote :
> I've recently installed pulseaudio because skype decided to have a hard
> dependency on it.
>
> I am trying to understand how it is supposed to work, since its effects are
> not transparent on my system. Sometimes the mixer will show all the various
> audio sinks and sources (headphones, PCM, Master, Capture, Mic, etc.) that
> good ol' alsa used to show. Other times it will only list:
>
the below it the poor pulse backend
> RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series] Digital Stereo (HDMI)
> Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
> Monitor of RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series] Digital Stereo (HDMI)
> Monitor of Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
> Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
>
there are opened issues:
https://phab.enlightenment.org/T1059
https://phab.enlightenment.org/T1299
> The problem is that the second headphone jack is always zeroed and muted -
> actually it winds down to zero and mutes itself before my eyes if I launch
> Skype.
>
try to start pulseaudio before launching e,
that should confirm that there is an issue in the way mixer thrie to get
in touch with pulse
> How is this meant to work and why does it switch between different lists?
> There may be a pattern to it (i.e. having headphones inserted before booting
> the laptop) but I have not yet undertaken any prolonged testing to determine
> this.
>
>
> PS. Occasionally, the mixer gadget will not load/display on my desktop, but
> restarting e, or rebooting, will bring it back up.
>
> PPS. I am running alsa-utils-1.0.27.2, pulseaudio-5.0-r2, on kernel-3.12.21
> on a gentoo system.
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