[LAU] Laptop sound problems

[Bill Purvis]

On 28/09/16 15:49, Len Ovens wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Bill Purvis wrote:
>
>> On 27/09/16 14:51, Len Ovens wrote:
>>>
>>> you need module-jackdbus-detect. the package is 
>>> pulseaudio-module-jack in debian/ubuntu. You also need to use jackd2 
>>> rather than jackd1.
>
>> Installed that, but still no sound. Shut down Jackd and it bursts 
>> into sound.
>> Tried to restart Jack but it fails:
>
> Run pavucontrol. In the playback tab  under the stream you are 
> listening to there will be a box with the name of your  audio device. 
> clicking on that gives a drop down ... select jack sink. Sound should 
> return. Then go to the output devices tab and find jack sink. There is 
> a square button with a checkmark in it to "set as fallback". clicking 
> on this makes that the default.
>
> In my case, I unload the PA alsa module and the PA udev module so that 
> pulse only ever sees the jack sink and then run jack at session start.
>
> In my opinion, Pulse has the front end jackd should have always had 
> and jackd provides a stable backend that pulse should have always had.
>
> -- 
> Len Ovens
> www.ovenwerks.net
pavucontrol only shows a dummy output device! Shut down jack, but still 
only dummy!

Bill

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