Maybe this this bug is already reported, but i could not find an open or fixed solution for it. Maybe this is similar https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787286 or https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972654 (pipewire is not installed) It is not possible to use Debian 10 as desktop environment, because sound is only sometimes available. Alsa is working, because i get a sound with some sound like aplay -D hw:0,1 /usr/share/sounds/sound-icons/canary-long.wav But when i try speaker-test i can see in pavucontrol that there is signal, but even switching it to the correct output the sound keeps dead. I have no idea what can be done and why it is working only sometimes? I can only say that i have to boot Debian 8 to get always sound! But Debian 8 is somehow outdated now ... Please help - this is more than annoying. Regards karsten $ aplay -l **** Liste der Hardware-Geräte (PLAYBACK) **** Karte 0: AudioPCI [Ensoniq AudioPCI], Gerät 0: ES1371/1 [ES1371 DAC2/ADC] Sub-Geräte: 0/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 0: AudioPCI [Ensoniq AudioPCI], Gerät 1: ES1371/2 [ES1371 DAC1] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], Gerät 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog] Sub-Geräte: 0/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], Gerät 1: VT1708S Digital [VT1708S Digital] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Sub-Geräte: 0/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 $ aplay -L null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) jack JACK Audio Connection Kit pulse PulseAudio Sound Server default Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server sysdefault:CARD=AudioPCI Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC2/ADC Default Audio Device front:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0 Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC2/ADC Front speakers rear:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0 Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC1 Rear speakers surround40:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0 Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC2/ADC 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers iec958:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0 Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC2/ADC IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output dmix:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0 Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC2/ADC Direct sample mixing device dmix:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=1 Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC1 Direct sample mixing device dsnoop:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0 Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC2/ADC Direct sample snooping device dsnoop:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=1 Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC1 Direct sample snooping device hw:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0 Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC2/ADC Direct hardware device without any conversions hw:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=1 Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC1 Direct hardware device without any conversions plughw:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0 Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC2/ADC Hardware device with all software conversions plughw:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=1 Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC1 Hardware device with all software conversions usbstream:CARD=AudioPCI Ensoniq AudioPCI USB Stream Output sysdefault:CARD=SB HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Analog Default Audio Device front:CARD=SB,DEV=0 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Analog Front speakers surround21:CARD=SB,DEV=0 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Analog 2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers surround40:CARD=SB,DEV=0 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Analog 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=SB,DEV=0 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Analog 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=SB,DEV=0 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Analog 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=SB,DEV=0 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Analog 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=SB,DEV=0 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Analog 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Digital IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output dmix:CARD=SB,DEV=0 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Analog Direct sample mixing device dmix:CARD=SB,DEV=1 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Digital Direct sample mixing device dsnoop:CARD=SB,DEV=0 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Analog Direct sample snooping device dsnoop:CARD=SB,DEV=1 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Digital Direct sample snooping device hw:CARD=SB,DEV=0 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Analog Direct hardware device without any conversions hw:CARD=SB,DEV=1 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Digital Direct hardware device without any conversions plughw:CARD=SB,DEV=0 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Analog Hardware device with all software conversions plughw:CARD=SB,DEV=1 HDA ATI SB, VT1708S Digital Hardware device with all software conversions usbstream:CARD=SB HDA ATI SB USB Stream Output hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 HDMI Audio Output hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 HDMI Audio Output hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=2 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 HDMI Audio Output hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 HDMI Audio Output dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Direct sample mixing device dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=7 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Direct sample mixing device dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=8 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Direct sample mixing device dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=9 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Direct sample mixing device dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Direct sample snooping device dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=7 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Direct sample snooping device dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=8 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Direct sample snooping device dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=9 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Direct sample snooping device hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Direct hardware device without any conversions hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=7 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Direct hardware device without any conversions hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=8 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Direct hardware device without any conversions hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=9 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Direct hardware device without any conversions plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Hardware device with all software conversions plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=7 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Hardware device with all software conversions plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=8 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Hardware device with all software conversions plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=9 HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Hardware device with all software conversions usbstream:CARD=NVidia HDA NVidia USB Stream Output
In the Multimediasettingsof KDE you can see that the soundblaster card is greyed out - why? This is the card that is working in ALSA, but only sometimes with pulseaudio in KDE. I tried to create an installation of Debian Bullseye, but this is not possible too ... https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972820
Regarding the Debian documentation https://wiki.debian.org/PulseAudio Setting "autospawn = no" in /etc/pulse/client.conf has no effect! I did also try cp /etc/pulse/client.conf ~/.config/pulse/ pulseaudio --kill You always have this process "00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no" I tried to delete the configuration in ~/.config/pulse/ without no effect. When you rename /usr/bin/pulseaudio then pulseaudio cannot start but you don't have any sound in KDE! What must be done to get rid of pulseaudio and to get direct sound with ALSA? When you try to remove the package there are to much dependencies: # apt-get purge pulseaudio Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut. Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig Die folgenden Pakete wurden automatisch installiert und werden nicht mehr benötigt: freeglut3 g++-6 gnuradio gnuradio-dev gr-fcdproplus gr-fosphor gr-iqbal gr-osmosdr libairspy0 libairspyhf1 libbladerf1 libboost-atomic1.67-dev libboost-chrono1.67-dev libboost-chrono1.67.0 libboost-date-time-dev libboost-date-time1.67-dev libboost-date-time1.67.0 libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-filesystem1.67-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-program-options1.67-dev libboost-regex1.67.0 libboost-serialization1.67-dev libboost-serialization1.67.0 libboost-system-dev libboost-system1.67-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-test1.67-dev libboost-test1.67.0 libboost-thread-dev libboost-thread1.67-dev libboost-timer1.67.0 libboost1.67-dev libcomedi0 libcppunit-1.14-0 libcppunit-dev libfreesrp0 libglfw3 libgnuradio-analog3.7.13 libgnuradio-atsc3.7.13 libgnuradio-audio3.7.13 libgnuradio-blocks3.7.13 libgnuradio-channels3.7.13 libgnuradio-comedi3.7.13 libgnuradio-digital3.7.13 libgnuradio-dtv3.7.13 libgnuradio-fcd3.7.13 libgnuradio-fcdproplus3.7.11 libgnuradio-fec3.7.13 libgnuradio-fft3.7.13 libgnuradio-filter3.7.13 libgnuradio-fosphor3.7.12 libgnuradio-iqbalance3.7.11 libgnuradio-noaa3.7.13 libgnuradio-osmosdr0.1.4 libgnuradio-pager3.7.13 libgnuradio-pmt3.7.13 libgnuradio-qtgui3.7.13 libgnuradio-runtime3.7.13 libgnuradio-trellis3.7.13 libgnuradio-uhd3.7.13 libgnuradio-video-sdl3.7.13 libgnuradio-vocoder3.7.13 libgnuradio-wavelet3.7.13 libgnuradio-wxgui3.7.13 libgnuradio-zeromq3.7.13 libhackrf0 libhamlib2 libjs-jquery-ui liblimesuite18.06-1 liblog4cpp5-dev liblog4cpp5v5 libmirisdr0 libnorm1 libosmosdr0 libpgm-5.2-0 libpulsedsp libqt4-help libqt4-scripttools libqt4-test libqtassistantclient4 libqwt-qt5-6 librtaudio6 librtlsdr0 libsoapysdr0.6 libsodium23 libstdc++-6-dev libuhd3.13.1 libvolk1-bin libvolk1-dev libvolk1.4 libzmq5 limesuite-udev pkg-config pulseaudio-utils python-cheetah python-cycler python-gobject-2 python-gtk2 python-kiwisolver python-matplotlib python-matplotlib2-data python-networkx python-opengl python-pygraphviz python-pyparsing python-qt4 python-scipy python-subprocess32 python-yaml python-zmq rtkit rtl-sdr soapyosmo-common0.6 soapysdr0.6-module-airspy soapysdr0.6-module-all soapysdr0.6-module-audio soapysdr0.6-module-bladerf soapysdr0.6-module-hackrf soapysdr0.6-module-lms7 soapysdr0.6-module-osmosdr soapysdr0.6-module-redpitaya soapysdr0.6-module-remote soapysdr0.6-module-rtlsdr soapysdr0.6-module-uhd uhd-host
After the last experiments and rebooting this time there is a new situation without sound. The soundblaster card is now card 2 and ALSA is working with aplay -D hw:2,0 /usr/share/sounds/sound-icons/canary-long.wav As you can see in the screenshot the card has been found by pulseaudio, but when it is moved up to the first position it cannot be used when you click on test. The error says that the device cannot be selected. What is going on with PulseAudio here? I tried to contact pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org with this problem and linked this bug ... $ aplay -l **** Liste der Hardware-Geräte (PLAYBACK) **** Karte 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], Gerät 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog] Sub-Geräte: 0/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], Gerät 1: VT1708S Digital [VT1708S Digital] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 2: AudioPCI [Ensoniq AudioPCI], Gerät 0: ES1371/1 [ES1371 DAC2/ADC] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 2: AudioPCI [Ensoniq AudioPCI], Gerät 1: ES1371/2 [ES1371 DAC1] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
I got an answer from pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org. The suggestion ist to run the script https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/raw/master/src/utils/pa-info and open a bug at PulseAudio. The interesting thing is that this script should be part of the package pulseaudio-utils, but this package is installed and the script is not existant? # apt-file search pa-info pulseaudio-utils: /usr/bin/pa-info So i downloaded the script and the result of it is attached. A corresponding bug is opened now at PulseAudio https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/1021
The next version of PulseAudio makes the promise to be "stable now". ========================================== Hi everyone, We found a few more papercuts in 13.99.2 than we'd hoped for, so here's one more RC to make sure things are stable now. tarball: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-13.99.3.tar.xz sha256: 60fdb5f619c85dfe3e018ad0ee1d8f6fe9041885c2e8b6ded724c855880276c8 Since 13.99.2, we've fixed some issues that came up with mixer configuration, availability groups being populated correctly, some jitter while streaming with the experimental GStreamer RTP backend, a couple of use-after-free crashes, and some default sink/source routing corner cases. Thanks to everyone who participated in testing, debugging and ironing these out! Please do test, and assuming things are quiet, I'll roll out 14.0 next week. As before, the plan is to roll out some more SoF-related fixes in 14.1. Cheers, Arun
forcemerge 972689 901148 Hello together, inspired from this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=935081 i tried the same on the Desktop PC with the problems in this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972689 Stopping timidity reactivates the sound in pulseaudio! But after installing the packages from joachim there where 2 instances of timidity after boot: timidity 791 1 0 15:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/timidity -Os -iAD karsten 2603 1 0 15:48 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/timidity -iA -Os I deactivated the system start of timidity with rcconf and now everything is fine. This modifications must be part of the distributions. Best regards karsten
Hello Karsten, Karsten wrote on 2020-12-06 11:25: because of all this trouble with timidity-daemon I have started build new packages, at first for testing, but then for buster to fix these bugs. The maintainer will sponsor me. Please wait a few days.--- Have a nice day. Joachim (Germany)