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Re: vdev and pulse

dummy@example.com (nixer) — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:55:40 +0000

If you are not using systemd, then please edit or remove
/etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf
to reenable it.

In ceres (ascii and jessie too?), I am using the Pulse Audio Volume Control to control volume within the xfce panel. This broke after a recent update and I had to follow the directive above to get it working again.

Re: vdev and pulse

dummy@example.com (fungus) — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 05:47:45 +0000

Interesting note on pulseaudio from debian

pulseaudio (11.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* Since this version, pulseaudio disables autospawn by default on linux
systems, and replaces that with systemd socket activation. If you are not
using systemd, then please edit or remove
/etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf
to reenable it.
-- Felipe Sateler Fri, 17 Nov 2017 20:13:57 -0300

vdev and pulse

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 04:34:40 +0000

This is an advisory note if you happen to use pulseaudio and want to trial vdev.

The issue is that pulseaudio has a builtin dependency on udev via its module module-udev-detect.so (e.g. /usr/lib/pulse-7.1/modules/module-udev-detect.so), and the associated stanza in /etc/pulse/default.pa, perhaps at lines 53-60:

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
.else
### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack udev support)
load-module module-detect
.endif

You should thus rename or remove module-udev-detect.so, or make the stanza be just:

load-module module-detect

Either way should be enough to keep sound working.