Control: tags -1 unreproducible
* Juha Jäykkä <ju...@iki.fi> [2016-11-20 18:15 +0000]:
> > alsamixer doesn't fire up any puls daemon. Please check whether
> > puls is running before starting alsamixer.
>
> It should not, but it certainly does:
>
> juhaj@meissa 18:07:16 ~> ps -flyu juhaj|grep pulseau
> S juhaj 9740 9724 0 99 19 2204 3488 - 18:07 pts/4 00:00:00
> grep pulseau
> Today is 20.11.2016, I am running on tty 4 and currently controlling 0 jobs
> juhaj@meissa 18:07:31 ~> alsamixer -c0
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio: line 3: /var/log/mpd/mpd.runs.pulseaudio.at: Permission
> denied
> W: [pulseaudio.real] main.c: /proc/self/exe does not point to /usr/bin/
> pulseaudio, cannot self execute. Are you playing games?
> Today is 20.11.2016, I am running on tty 4 and currently controlling 0 jobs
> juhaj@meissa 18:07:39 ~> ps -flyu juhaj|grep pulseau
> S juhaj 9746 1 7 69 -11 10840 166267 - 18:07 ? 00:00:00 /
> usr/bin/pulseaudio.real --start --log-target=syslog
> S juhaj 9752 9746 0 80 0 5336 30992 - 18:07 ? 00:00:00 /
> usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
> S juhaj 9756 9724 0 99 19 2160 3488 - 18:07 pts/4 00:00:00
> grep pulseau
> Today is 20.11.2016, I am running on tty 4 and currently controlling 0 jobs
> juhaj@meissa 18:07:40 ~>
What do you want to tell me here? It seems your pulseaudio
installation is a bit buggy. I can't reproduce.
> I do not think this behaviour is correct. The user juhaj is pristine, and
> default.pa comes from the deb, except I've added
default.pa comes from pulseaudio or xrdp package. There is no
instruction to start pulse in any alsa package.
> load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmix:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=1
>
> just before
>
> .ifexists module-udev-detect.so
> load-module module-udev-detect
> .else
> ### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack udev
> support)
> load-module module-detect
> .endif
>
> > BTW: do you have more then one soundcard installed? If not just run
> > alsamixer without any option.
>
> Your guess is correct. A total of three soundcards, although only two are
> relevant here: the third one is a webcam which only has a microphone, no
> speakers.
>
> Now that you mention it, while alsamixer -c1 and alsamixer -c2 also start
> pulseaudio, only alsamixer -c0 causes any volumes to change.
>
> Which makes me wonder perhaps
>
> load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmix:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=1
>
> has something to do with the changing of the mute setting. Having said that,
> I
> don't really mind if pulseaudio gets started as long as it does not screw up
> the mixer settings in the process: I can always configure other software to
> use alsa explicitly if I need to.
>
> So I still think the problem is that pulseaudio gets started in the first
> place.
It seems that pulse is fired up by mpd?
Elimar
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