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jiri

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Registered: 2020-09-14

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Devuan testing minimal install pulseaudio muted at login

Hello,

I  have made Devuan Beowulf network core install then I have upgraded to Devuan Chimaera with no problem.
After reboot I  have install xfce4, pavucontrol, pulseaudio, and lightdm.
But  then pulse audio starts always muted. I  need to turn  pulseaudio  on  to have  sound. Sound  then works  fine.
But I would like to  have  pulse audio unmuted  at login as it is in general instalation.

What  am I  missing?

root@vbox:/home/jiri# dpkg -l | grep -i  alsa-tools
ii  alsa-tools                           1.2.2-1                            amd64        Console based ALSA utilities for specific hardware
root@vbox:/home/jiri# dpkg -l | grep -i  pulse
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64        1.16.2-3                           amd64        GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64        13.0-5                             amd64        PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii  libpulse0:amd64                      13.0-5                             amd64        PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libpulsedsp:amd64                    13.0-5                             amd64        PulseAudio OSS pre-load library
ii  pavucontrol                          4.0-2                              amd64        PulseAudio Volume Control
ii  pulseaudio                           13.0-5                             amd64        PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-utils                     13.0-5                             amd64        Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
ii  xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin:amd64        0.4.3-1                            amd64        Xfce4 panel plugin to control pulseaudio
root@vbox:/home/jiri# dpkg -l | grep -i  audio
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64        1.16.2-3                           amd64        GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libao-common                         1.2.2+20180113-1                   all          Cross Platform Audio Output Library (Common files)
ii  libavcodec58:amd64                   7:4.3.1-2                          amd64        FFmpeg library with de/encoders for audio/video codecs - runtime files
ii  libcdparanoia0:amd64                 3.10.2+debian-13+b1                amd64        audio extraction tool for sampling CDs (library)
ii  libflac8:amd64                       1.3.3-1                            amd64        Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtime C library
ii  libjack-jackd2-0:amd64               1.9.14~dfsg-1                      amd64        JACK Audio Connection Kit (libraries)
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64        13.0-5                             amd64        PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii  libpulse0:amd64                      13.0-5                             amd64        PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libpulsedsp:amd64                    13.0-5                             amd64        PulseAudio OSS pre-load library
ii  libsamplerate0:amd64                 0.1.9-2                            amd64        Audio sample rate conversion library
ii  libsndfile1:amd64                    1.0.28-8                           amd64        Library for reading/writing audio files
ii  libswresample3:amd64                 7:4.3.1-2                          amd64        FFmpeg library for audio resampling, rematrixing etc. - runtime files
ii  libtwolame0:amd64                    0.4.0-2                            amd64        MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoding library
ii  libvisual-0.4-0:amd64                0.4.0-17                           amd64        audio visualization framework
ii  libvorbis0a:amd64                    1.3.6-2                            amd64        decoder library for Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec
ii  libvorbisenc2:amd64                  1.3.6-2                            amd64        encoder library for Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec
ii  libvorbisfile3:amd64                 1.3.6-2                            amd64        high-level API for Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec
ii  libwavpack1:amd64                    5.3.0-1                            amd64        audio codec (lossy and lossless) - library
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing1:amd64    0.3-1+b1                           amd64        AudioProcessing module from the WebRTC project.
ii  pavucontrol                          4.0-2                              amd64        PulseAudio Volume Control
ii  pulseaudio                           13.0-5                             amd64        PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-utils                     13.0-5                             amd64        Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
ii  xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin:amd64        0.4.3-1                            amd64        Xfce4 panel plugin to control pulseaudio
root@vbox:/home/jiri# 

I  tried to delete content of  ~/.config/pulse too but with no luck. There is no folder pulse in  ~/tmp

larsH

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Registered: 2020-05-05

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Re: Devuan testing minimal install pulseaudio muted at login

Hi

Have you read the release notes. It is listed there :-)
look here https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3728

Have a nice day
Lars H

jiri

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Registered: 2020-09-14

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Re: Devuan testing minimal install pulseaudio muted at login

Hi Lars,

followed that guide after install, therefore I put question on the forum.
That guide did not help.

Greetings
Jiri

Last edited by jiri (2020-09-14 14:40:47)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2019-03-24

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Re: Devuan testing minimal install pulseaudio muted at login

Was PulseAudio unmuted at boot under beowulf? Things break sometimes in the development branches, hence the name "testing".

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jiri

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Registered: 2020-09-14

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Re: Devuan testing minimal install pulseaudio muted at login

Pulse was not installed.

stable core install > upgrade to testing > xfce4, pulse and etc. installation

I have tried the same way in Debian, result is identical.

But when I run tasksel (Devuan or  Debian) and then pick desktop installation - common installation (and install another stuff that I do not want to have.), pulse is activated at logon after restart.

There must be some package, settings which activates/unmute pulse at logon.

F_Sauce

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From: Noreg

Registered: 2017-07-07

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Re: Devuan testing minimal install pulseaudio muted at login

It's really a sad mess this, PulseAudio does not offer anything which were not available in the first place; PA is just an unnecessary layer!
More of a mess comes from development thinking this is the future.