@bgstack15

so I have different types of issues now.

Then it is more likely  that aplay -l shows your hdmi getting index=0 or card 0. Use a modprobe config file to swap the index

see link if relevant
http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=339#p339

there are other ways of swapping index 2....and assumes you need analog sound.

Alas, sorry, I was trying to sound mysterious and aloof. I have no problems at the moment to troubleshoot. I do use Xfce and pulseaudio on the one system where I'm trying to output audio to HDMI (home theater PC). I guess I'm just a pragmatist because I use dbus everywhere, because I like lightdm which needs dbus and logind, and pulseaudio when I'm lazy.

aut0exec wrote:

the only issue was pulseaudio not starting automatically so one of my shell functions for recording audio wasn't working properly.

That was one of my early issues with Devuan Ceres (which was based on Beowulf at the time) as well! I remember making a .desktop file for my xdg autostart to run "pulseaudio -start" I think it was. Nowadays I've moved to alsa and not Xfce, so I have different types of issues now.

I wish I could move solely to alsa but try as I may, simply can't figure out how to record streams with solely alsa on this machine....

Then it is more likely  that aplay -l shows your hdmi getting index=0 or card 0. Use a modprobe config file to swap the index

see link if relevant
http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=339#p339

there are other ways of swapping index 2....and assumes you need analog sound.

the only issue was pulseaudio not starting automatically so one of my shell functions for recording audio wasn't working properly.

That was one of my early issues with Devuan Ceres (which was based on Beowulf at the time) as well! I remember making a .desktop file for my xdg autostart to run "pulseaudio -start" I think it was. Nowadays I've moved to alsa and not Xfce, so I have different types of issues now.