On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 12:54 deloptes <delop...@gmail.com wrote: > Michael Earl Milliman wrote: > > > I regularly use at least one loopback module in my pulseaudio setup, > > looping incoming USB audio stream back to the computer speakers and/or > > bluetooth headphones. This means that I almost always run 'pactl > > load-module module-loopback' as one of the first things I do when > > booting up. According to the pulseaudio documentation, I can put the > > command 'load-module module-loopback' into a default.pa file in my > > configuration folder for pulseaudio (~/.config/pulse) and it will be run > > automatically on log-in. Unfortunately, when I do so, the pulseaudio > > server crashes (or fails to start). I have also tried putting this > > command in the system configuration folder, which causes much the same > > problem. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong, or what I need to do > > differently. Putting the appropriate command in my log-in script is an > > option, but was hoping for a way to do it automatically through > > pulseaudio. > > Ahm, PA is spawned by the user session, so you need to load (if at all) > after you log in and PA is started. > > Yes, it is spawned by user session, which is why I attempted to place the > command needed in my home configuration folder. Pulse does remember > settings from the previous session, but only applies them after the module > is loaded. It doesn't automatically load modules that were being used in > the previous session. >
I write (if at all), because I think PA can remember what you were doing > before, but it could be also version related issue. > > Last but not least. I compiled 12.2 because all the rest had too many bugs. > Don't know which is the version now in stretch - I got so pissed. Now > finally it works 99.5%. My issues were also related to removable (BT) > source. It was nasty with 11.1. 11.99 was better, but got a hint about 12.2 > and it is peace now. > > hope it helps > > regards > >
