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potuz
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 Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:21 pm Post subject: pulseaudio not seing the audiocard |
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Hello list, on a fresh install on a powerbook g4. Alsa and gstreamer are working fine as the following | Code: | | gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=1.mp3 ! mad ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! alsasink |
produces audio. Changing the default alsa pcm to pulse (alsa-plugins installed) and | Code: | gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///1.mp3
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: GstPulseSinkClock |
No audio. Pavucontrol doesn't find any hardware card, and the only output possible is the Dummy one.
My sound card is driven by snd-powermac which is not found automatically by the init script so I had to | Code: | | alias snd-card-0 snd-powermac |
on /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf
booting up I see a line like this just after loading the module:
| Code: | | udevd-work[4638]: error opening ATTR{/sys/class/sound/controlC0/../uevent} for writing: No such file or directory |
but I am not sure it is related.
Any help would be appreciated. Even good advice as to how to get rid of pulseaudio might work. I built all of gnome with the USE="pulseaudio" flag, so I'm not sure how safe is it to go with emerge --unmerge pulseaudio. |
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gringo
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| Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:27 am Post subject: |
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don´t know if this is related or not but here it goes :
| Quote: | | My sound card is driven by snd-powermac |
if it works then you are done i suppose, but my powerbook uses the so called "apple onboard audio driver" instead of the the snd-powermac driver.
BTW, alsaconf or alsa´s init script don´t detect the card here either and never did IIRC.
| Quote: | | Even good advice as to how to get rid of pulseaudio might work. I built all of gnome with the USE="pulseaudio" flag, so I'm not sure how safe is it to go with emerge --unmerge pulseaudio. |
sure you can get rid of pulseaudio, it just is another sound daemon after all which isn´t needed in case you just want to play some music or movies.
I think pulseaudio isn´t enabled by default in any profile so removing pulseaudio from your USE´s in your make.conf file ( if that´s the case) and rebuilding all packages that have a pulseaudio flag afterwards should do it. It can be easily done with emerge´s -N switch.
cheers
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potuz
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| Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I figured that if the initscript didn't detect the card, then hal and udev wont detect it for pulseaudio either. So explicitly asking to load the alsa module in default.pa did the trick and I have a functioning pulseaudio. Which by the way I like cause I don't know any other way of streaming to an airport express. I'm still experiencing overheating and related shutdowns on performance governor though  but that's part of the other thread.
Thanks,
R. |
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