PulseAudio became the standard audio system in Fedora 8, but it is a buggy piece of crap that crashes from time to time for no apparent reason. Or, sometimes it works great without any problems. Maybe it's not so bad.
Want to install PulseAudio mixer on Debian?
apt-get install pavucontrol
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PulseAudio does not get along well with KDE
pulseaudio-core-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8 pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.8-5.fc8 pulseaudio-utils-0.9.8-5.fc8 pulseaudio-0.9.8-5.fc8 pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.8-5.fc8 pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.8-5.fc8 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.15-3.fc8.1 pulseaudio-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8 akode-pulseaudio-2.0.2-4.fc8 kde-settings-pulseaudio-3.5-38.fc8 pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.8-5.fc8
esdcompat: esdcompat is a compatiblity script that takes the same arguments as the ESD sound daemon esd(1), but uses them to start a the PulseAudio sound server with the appropriate parameters
PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/sound-sample.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
aplay -L amixer cat /proc/asound/version cat /etc/asound.conf lspci -v |grep -iC 10 audio lsmod |grep snd
Try this: (THIS WORKED) A viable work around to get rid of pulseaudio piece o crap
rename pulse-default.conf in /etc/alsa to somethin else. (This file makes pulseaudio the default device for sound for alsa) run /sbin/alsactl restore
cd /etc/alsa mv pulse-default.conf pulse-default.SUCKS /sbin/alsactl restore mplayer /usr/share/sounds/what_the_hell.mp3
Audio playback successful!
Some people say remove the rpm
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
and another Fedora 8 person has urged me to install
kde-settings-pulse
$ xmms *
- PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
- WARNING **: alsa_setup(): Failed to open pcm device (default):
Connection refused
$ mplayer * ....
- PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Connection refused Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. Audio: no sound Video: no video ....
The solution isn't as simple as starting pulseaudio, though:
$ pulseaudio W: alsa-util.c: Cannot find mixer control "Master". E: module-alsa-source.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: No such file or directory E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device=hw:0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_1002_4383_alsa_capture_0"): initialization failed.