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

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Teutone <whiteteutone at gmail.com> [2014-11-21 01:55 +0100]:

> On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 17:27 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > 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
> > -- 
> >   Alles was viel bedacht wird ist bedenklich!;-)
> >          Friedrich Nietzsche
> > 
> 
> Okay I tried this, but no difference to sound test with pulseaudio.
> Built in speakers work, headphone jack does not play a single sound,
> nothing. Speakers get auto-muted when I plug in my headphones though.

This looks like a driver bug. As I remember you're using linux-3.16.
It's pretty new, though. In sid we have linux-3.17 images which
worth to try. If that not helps I'd forward this bug to the kernel
team with your attention please. To browse the ALSA BTS [0] might be
helpful as well.

> Only difference, I can't use media buttons to control volume when
> pulseaudio is turned off (guess that's normal)

Thats not normal. My thinkpads are working with a straight ALSA. For
me there is no advantage to run pulseaudio. The "media buttons" are
working correct. Same on my powerbook (Yeah, it's PPC arch ;-)).

[0] https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug

Elimar
-- 
 Numeric stability is probably not all that
  important when you're guessing;-)