9 Jan
2025
9 Jan
'25
5:07 p.m.
said dep via tde-users:
| Greetings, everybody, and happy 2025 even though the start to the year
| does not seem promising in many places.
|
| Digging through issues one by one here. Am using the desktop more after
| having gotten a TKL (SSK in IBM parlance) Model M from Unicomp. I have a
| couple of genuine IBM SSKs, but they have become to valuable to use. The
| Unicomp reissue is if anything better, and I love it. But I digress.
|
| I'm running Debian Trixie and TDE-almost-ready (I don't remember what
| TDE testing is called, but I'm running the not-bleeding-edge testing
| version, the middle one).
|
| I've discovered that sound doesn't work on my machine. I imagine that
| this comes down to Pipewire, the Wayland of sound. (No, I do not use
| Wayland. Playing pioneer in Linux was a hoot 25 years ago; now I just
| want the damn machine to work.) When setting up a couple of Rspberry
| Pi5s as television sets last year, I got no sound until I nuked Pipewire
| entirely, which I haven't done here on the desktop yet.
|
| KMix seems in order. I have gone everywhere I could find to set the
| audio to the built-in audio -- the system seems desperate to give me
| HDMI audio, but I have no HDMI audio. At the moment, I have no audio of
| any sort, but at least I have the hardware for non-HDMI audio.
|
| pulseaudio -v renders this:
|
| I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed:
| Operation not permitted
| I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed:
| Operation not permitted
| I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
| I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 17.0
| I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
| I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is 5319a42264b14252b3e0bc50dadf9032.
| I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is 4.
| I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /run/user/1000/pulse.
| I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/dep/.pulse.
| I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules
| directory /usr/lib/pulse-17.0+dfsg1/modules.
| I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no
| E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
| E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
|
| When I check the sound system page in KControl, all seems fine. System
| restarts uneventfully. Everything seems to work except sound coming from
| the speakers.
|
| I'm out of guesses. Advice?
| --
| dep
Trying various settings in pavucontrol I found a place where it was
seemingly forcing HDMI. I disabled that, apparently, because instantly I
had sound. Oh, and nuked pipewire and all its near relatives and close
friends.
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dep
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