16 Dec
2008
16 Dec
'08
9:32 p.m.
On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 15:20 -0600, The Other wrote:
The Other wrote:
> Then I looked into the /etc/pulse/default.pa file, and went into the
> ### Load Audio Drivers section and put in this:
>
> load-module module-alsa-sink
> load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0
One more caveat... the load of kernel modules is done now in parallel
(if I understand things correctly so that the boot process is faster).
That can have the unfortunate side effect that the order of the
soundcards is not necessarily always the same... check the Planet CCRMA
pages, there are instructions there on how to solve that.
-- Fernando
and commented
out everything in the ### Automatically Load Drivers
section so hal-detect wouldn't be used.
That helped some. But now I think I understand what is causing my
trouble. The motherboard sound chip is getting recognized as hw:0
(default), and the Audigy2 ZS is getting recognized as hw:1.
I think RealPlayer 11 is using hw:0 as the output, hence it's getting
kicked out on the motherboard speaker. In prior versions of ALSA, I
remember a program called alsaconfig (or something close to that) that
let you specify the order of your sound chips/cards. I would always
set the Audigy2 to become hw:0.
I need something like this for PulseAudio. Then some of these older
sound programs which always use hw:0 would be using the Audigy2
instead of the motherboard.
While trying to change the default sound card for hw:0, I looked at
the end of the /etc/pulse/default.pa file. There was a section
labelled ### Make Some Devices Default. This looked very promising.
Somewhere in the PulseAudio documentation I thought I saw something
about being able to use the label for the hardware device. So instead
of saying hw:1,0, I tried using hw:[Audigy2] to specify the device.
In the ### Load Audio Drivers Statically section, I modified my lines to:
load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:[Audigy2]
load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:[Audigy2]
Then in the ### Make Some Devices Default section, I added:
set-default-sink device=hw:[Audigy2]
set-default-source device=hw:[Audigy2]
Saved out and relogged in as a normal user.
Serendipity! I had borked-up the PulseAudio Server so that it
wouldn't connect/initialize/start-up/whatever it does. I was no
longer at the mercy of PulseAudio!
I then removed the alsa-plugins-pulseaudio RPM. Now ALSA is in
control of everything like it was before this upgrade to Fedora Core
9. The motherboard speaker is silent, as it always should be.
I can't run RealAudio 11 (I can configure it, but as soon as I tell it
to play an internet radio stream RealAudio immediately closes itself
and hides.) But I can still use Firefox to play the internet radio
stream, so I'm happy.
The moral of this story: If PulseAudio is making your life miserable,
give it some default sinks and sources that don't exist. PulseAudio
will go away and give you some peace.
Now, do I dare reboot this machine and find out that my method doesn't
really work? No way!
Thanks All,
Stephen.
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