[solved]a detects pulseaudio as default sound card, no sound

kishan9778 · Last edited by kishan9778 on Sun Aug 21, 2016 1:06 pm; edited 1 time in total

Alsa detects pulseaudio as its sound card, although invoking f6 in alsamixer shows that the kernel is not to blame. Also i have no sounds at all except beeps, and the speaker icon keeps on getting muted each time i boot. what's the problem here and how do i solve it? im thinking of making the IDT chip as the default one. I dunno maybe i'm wrong

ps. the link below is a screenshot of 2 alsamixer windows that show both cards, the left one being the default.

http://imgur.com/a/7W6QI

Logicien · Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 12:52 pm Post subject:

Everything is normal. You have to use Pavucontrol, the Pulseaudio mixer, to manage the mixers of the sound cards. Pulseaudio is always the default mixer when it install. It create the file /etc/asound.conf to redirect Alsa applications requests to Pulseaudio.

It can be bypass by F6 in Alsamixer or start Alsamixer with the -c parameter and specify the card to display, -c 0 for example.
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kishan9778 · Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 1:02 pm Post subject:

Ok, so I ran pavucontrol, unmuted and didn't set the card as fallback. Things are working fine so far. I'll reboot now And see what happens next

kishan9778 · Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 1:05 pm Post subject:

Okie doke, everything's fine now,thanks!