Re: all of a sudden I have no sound
debian-accessibility is interested in replacing pulseaudio with pipewire
and I can understand why! Not saying pipewire has these essential
features but pulseaudio has been a p.i.t.a. since I've had it on any
hardware I've used. Whenever possible I avoid installing pulseaudio or
remove it from a system that installs it automatically for sanity
purposes.
On Thu, 16 Dec 2021, David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 16 Dec 2021 at 09:13:11 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > > it would be nice if pulseaudio say in pavucontrol would get a find my
> > > speakers button which would try what it thinks is a speaker andput a
> > > message on the screen asking if the user heard some music. If the answer
> > > is no, move onto the next speaker.
> >
> > It would be nice if, for example, it remembered the way that you
> > wanted a system to be rather than recalculating it every time a
> > device changes state. If I turn off the home theater receiver
> > connected to my media server via HDMI, PulseAudio decides that
> > it can't be used, so it helpfully switches over to another audio
> > output device. When I turn the receiver back on, PulseAudio does
> > not switch back to it automatically.
> >
> > The present case is probably similar: PA decided something was
> > unplugged, switched to a different sink, and did not bring it
> > back when it was "replugged".
>
> It's not just nice to have these features, but essential, and
> that's one reason why I don't install pulseaudio. Using amixer
> in ALSA, I can type one line and have the audio set how I want
> it, with the correct levels set and unmuted, just as aumix did
> under OSS for many years.
>
> And, of course, it's not that /I/ have to type that line. If
> I now type in:
> $ touch .cron/2021-12-19-05-55-rk-250
> then the system will automatically record the Sunday morning
> programme from the radio, using appropriate recording levels
> set by the script in bin/rk.sh.
>
> I could never get beyond having to poke around in pulseaudio
> every time I used it. What I wanted was something that would
> enable me to power up the PC at bedtime Saturday, and have it
> just work without the necessity of logging in etc.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>
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