Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things
On Monday 20 December 2021 10:09:56 am Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > > Well, sound on the Debian side of things works, as in playing youtube videos and such. It doesn't work in the Slackware virtualbox, which is apparently trying to connect to Pulseaudio. Going through the Xfce application menus just now I see very little that would tell me what it is that's actually running here, so I figure I probably need to typs something on the command line in a terminal, but I don't know what.
> > >
> > > One thing that shows up in the Xfce application menu under multimedia is "Pulseaudio Volume Control". When I invoke this a small window pops up, with the text "Establishing connection to Pulseaudio. Please wait" and then nothing happens, even if I let it sit there for quite a while.
> > >
> > > Suggestions as to where I might look for the problem?
> >
> > In general, that message means that even if there is a copy of
> > the pulseaudio daemon running, it is not running with the right
> > userid and the X11 session you are running in doesn't know about
> > it.
> >
> > Run "pulseaudio --start" and try again.
>
> That did get the volume control as invoked from the Xfce applications menu working, all right. Looking in the process table that I see under KDE System Monitor (what I usually use to keep track of system loading) I now see pulseaudio in there twice. One shows the command you mention here, and the other one doesn't, and says "daemonize=no". I'm guessing that's the problem, where to fix it is another question. Mousing over it I also see "parent=systemd" for both of them...
>
> Looking at "man systemd", nothing jumps out at me with regard to where I want to go from here.
With this having been done, after restarting the virtualbox instance, sound is now working there also. What I might need to fiddle with in terms of systemd is not at all clear to me, though. I don't know why this would have changed with the upgrade.
Any further thoughts on this?
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