Ok, first of all I need to reiterate what alsamixer does. when you launch alsamixer it will ALWAYS show you the first sound card. If the pulseaudio daemon is running, it will grab the first slot and will therefore show by default in alsamixer. That's not an issue, it's just how it scans for devices.
Press F6, select your sound card and see if the options persisted. In general, any volume changes you make in alsamixer will persist until the computer, or pulseaudio is restarted. See below for possible solutions... On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 5:08 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2020, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > pulseaudio is running, so it takes over control of alsa settings. > > Everytime the pulse daemon starts, it will reset alsa to it's own > > defaults, ignoring whatever you try and set. That's how pulse works and > is > > literally one of the reasons why so many slackware users flat out refuse > > to run pulseaudio. > > Ben, > > What's a better alternative? I thought pulse audio was the new standard. > Pulseaudio is not the "new standard". that's marketing propaganda from the Red Ha'ts Millenial of the Decade. Pulseaudio is an additional layer ON TOP OF existing infrastructure. Slackware boots, loads alsa drivers, and THEN launches pulseaudio, which communicates with alsa on behalf of the application. So now, applications like firefox link to libpulse instead of libalsa. Nothing was changed, simply added Therefore, the glorious alternative is to remove/disable the pulseaudio daemon in it's entirety. Doing this will revert your entire system to a simpler time when everyone set up their input/output channels in asoundrc, and still had spines. Downside to this is that any application that removed alsa support will no longer be able to output audio. e.g. Firefox, so we can add Mozilla to the weak spine department. > > Go into pavucontrol an select the Configuration tab. > > You should see each audio device listed. > > - One for your video card (HDMI) > > - One for your motherboard chip > > - One for your USB device > > On top is HDA ATI HDMI with all profies off. > > Under HD-Audio Generic is a dropdown list with two analog stero choices, 2 > digital stereo, and a bunch of analog surround choices for the profile. I > now have Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output selected. > > > Do you see the USB device listed in pavucontrol's configuration tab? Does > > it have a name? > > No and no. > > that's odd. alsa can see the device, but pulse can't. you might want to try rebooting your computer with the device connected to see if that helps it scan. I don't know of a way to force the pulse daemon to re-scan for devices but I'm sure one exists. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
