Fri, 25 Sep 2020 22:54:14 -0700 - Marc Shapiro <[email protected]>:
> I have been running Debian for over 20 years, but I want to avoid > systemd, so I am trying out Devuan. > > I installed ASCII a last year and just did an upgrade to Beowulf about a > week ago. [...] > The issue that I am having is with sound. My daughter reported that it > was not working. I tried playing a video (in Firefox) from my login and > also got no sound. > > I have since determined that pulseaudio was not running (it is > installed). So I started the pulseaudio daemon under my login, started > up Firefox and played a video. Sound. Yay! I logged into my > daughter's account and started the pulseaudio daemon, started Firefox > and played a video. No sound. Boo! > > The I started pavucontrol under both logins. My login shows the 'Built > in Analog Stereo' output device, and its monitor for input. My > daughter's login shows a 'Dummy' output device and its monitor for > input. under my wife's login, it shows the same 'Dummy' devices as my > daughter's login . > > 1) If anyone can tell me how to get pulseaudio to see my built-in audio > for all three logins, it would be greatly appreciated. > > 2) How do I get pulseaudio to run for each user when they log into the > system. > > 3) The 'play' utility from the sox package gives an error whenever I try > to play an mp3 file. Using 'aplay' to play .wav files works fine. What > do I need to do to play mp3s from the commandline? > > (NOTE: I boot to console only. Each user switches to a different VT and > runs startx from there.) I am running Beowulf and I have all the audio stuff perfectly running using just *only* ALSA (M Audio Audiophile 24/96 sound card, also connected to my hifi setup, whit a real-time audio configuration). I do not need any of the pulseaudio stuff (which is just a useless and total mess IMHO... Indeed, I have removed all the pulseaudio packages). Firefox, from a certain version onwards (sorry but I don't remember which one), removed support for ALSA from the default build configuration (maybe it will be restored in the future, I don't know if it has already been but I don't think so), keeping only pulseaudio support. This should explain why you didn't have audio on Firefox; while I can assume that the other problems depend on pulseaudio and its configuration (also because I seem to understand that they happened after you installed it...). The solution I suggest is to totally remove any pulseaudio stuff, use ALSA instead, install the `apulse` package which is a PulseAudio emulator for ALSA (this should ensure that Firefox -- and any other program which require pulseaudio -- will work even if pulseaudio is not present). Also I suggest to install some useful ALSA-related packages: - `apulse` - `alsa-utils` - `alsaplayer-alsa` (and `alsaplayer-gtk`) - `alsamixer` (and `alsamixergui`) to handle your audio devices - `volumeicon-alsa` a lightweight systray volume control Regards al3xu5 -- Say NO to copyright, patents, trademarks and industrial design restrictions! ____________________________________________________________________________ Public GPG/PGP key: F94CFE23 (4096 bit RSA) Key fingerprint: 59C6 9DC7 CD4B CF2F A190 E3DE 69C5 977B F94C FE23
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