[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#770122: Bug#770122: patch as workaround/solution

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Teutone <whiteteutone at gmail.com> [2014-11-19 13:35 +0100]:

> Thank you for looking into this so fast!
> 
> Okay I disabled the service to get back to the state I was in:
> 
> $ sudo systemctl disable alsa-fix.service
> Removed
> symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/alsa-fix.service.
> 
> Btw I did a fast test before that and after resume from hibernate the
> workaround doesn't seem to work anymore (only after reboot probably)...
> I am still learning; am on Debian since 3 weeks.
> 
> then I did a --reinstall of alsa-base/utils & libasound2 for pristine
> installation of those 
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall alsa-base alsa-utils libasound2
> 
> 
> I checked my $home/ folder for hidden files using 
> $ls -a 
> but there is no .asoundrc file there
> 
> I made a collection of screenshots of alsamixer and pulseaudio settings
> for you; I hope they can help to resolve the issue. First two
> screenshots are xterm output.
> 
> As you can see the channels are correctly auto-muted when I switch from
> speaker to headphone jack, but there's simply no audio coming out of
> that jack. Even pulseaudio shows a sound ping when I test headphone
> configuration (last screenshot). I also tried muting and unmuting in
> pulseaudio settings and switching to Analog Stereo configuration, no
> deal.

Please try as user:

$ mkdir $HOME/.pulse
$ echo "autospawn=no" >> $HOME/.pulse/client.conf

This prevents pulseaudio to restart when it's down.

To shutdown pulse:
$ pulseaudio -k

Please test sound now.

To restart pulse:
$ pulseaudio -D

Elimar
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