pulseaudio insanity

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root

2022-01-23 21:19:02 UTC

My sound problems began when I updated my system with slackpkg.
It seems that pulseaudio has intruded into my system. However,
even when I disable pulseaudio I still have no sound. Today
I have now spent over four hours trying to get something
out of pulseaudio. I can get pactl commands to work and
pactl info gives me:

Server String: /var/run/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 31
Server Protocol Version: 31
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 0
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: pulse
Host Name: torr
Server Name: pulseaudio
Server Version: 9.0-rebootstrapped
Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Cookie: 8c6f:cf2f

There is where my sound problems arise: pulseaudio sends
my output to analog-stereo.

So I want to change that to hdmi output which used
to be alsa:device=plughw=1.3

I need to run pacmd list-sinks to find what
is available, but the pacmd command yields:

No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.

Well the daemon is running so pacmd is broken.

I hope to be able to /etc/pulse/client.conf to
set the default-sink to something that functions
like the alsa:device=plughw=1.3. I can't
find any examples.

WTF?

Thanks for any suggestions.

root

2022-01-23 21:32:46 UTC

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My sound problems began when I updated my system with slackpkg.
It seems that pulseaudio has intruded into my system. However,
even when I disable pulseaudio I still have no sound. Today
I have now spent over four hours trying to get something
out of pulseaudio. I can get pactl commands to work and
Server String: /var/run/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 31
Server Protocol Version: 31
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 0
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: pulse
Host Name: torr
Server Name: pulseaudio
Server Version: 9.0-rebootstrapped
Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Cookie: 8c6f:cf2f
There is where my sound problems arise: pulseaudio sends
my output to analog-stereo.
So I want to change that to hdmi output which used
to be alsa:device=plughw=1.3
I need to run pacmd list-sinks to find what
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
Well the daemon is running so pacmd is broken.
I hope to be able to /etc/pulse/client.conf to
set the default-sink to something that functions
like the alsa:device=plughw=1.3. I can't
find any examples.
WTF?
Thanks for any suggestions.

I have made a breakthrough. If I manually start pulseaudio & I
get the followin error message:

Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" argument: device = hw: 1,7" initialization failed.

I need to change the argument to device = hw: 1,3

Any ideas of where the command comes from and how to change it?

root

2022-01-23 21:42:49 UTC

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I have made a breakthrough. If I manually start pulseaudio & I
Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" argument: device = hw: 1,7" initialization failed.
I need to change the argument to device = hw: 1,3
Any ideas of where the command comes from and how to change it?

OK, I found that the load module command was defined in
/etc/pulse/default.pa:
load-module module-alsa-sink device = hw: 1,3

Which was 1,7. The module still fails to load.