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Re: next amd64 stretch problem



Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-05-06 17:06:34)
> On Monday 06 May 2019 04:05:46 am Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > In recent times, Pulseaudio "hijacks" direct ALSA access by
> > registering with ALSA as a virtual audio card, which reroutes through
> > its pipeline and then sending out audio through the real audio card.
> >
> > You can force avoid Pulseaudio by starting an application like this
> > from a terminal:
> >
> >   pasuspender -- speaker-test
> 
> which gets me total silence, except for a low level beep from kmail 
> (trinity version r14.0.6) as mail is incoming.  What does that tell us?

Not certain but seems to me an indication that indeed Pulseaudio is 
involved.  One way to doublecheck if that's the case is to ask ALSA 
which audio cards are available, and which of them is card #0.


 - Jonas

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