1 Jun
2021
1 Jun
'21
11:21 a.m.
William Morder via tde-users wrote:
forget also the alluded problems
this is where it starts getting interested. You ignored completely
pavucontrol.
I don't use sound in any browser, ever. If I want
music or a video, I
download it, and listen/watch it on a media player. Also I do not use
Bluetooth for anything at all.
OK - it seems we have no common use case here - forget this part then.
It indeed depends on the use cases, but more complex use cases require
more complex tools and I do not see a chance a purist can do them. In
fact what I see are advises based on 5y old experience with PA (perhaps
version 10 or earlier), which lead to even bigger issues and end up in
loop of errors.
You seem to allude to "problems" (I don't know if that's the right
word)
that are not obvious, or which I haven't yet experienced. I would be
interested to know more, for future reference. As I say, alsa serves my
needs at the moment, but I could change my mind. I am open to being
convinced.
Of course the machine and the choice is yours.
I know that you guys are not the youngest and hope I could help with
sharing my experience.
Well, just from the glance at your screenshot, that is basically what I
see in Kmix with pulseaudio as the soundcard. And if that's what you want,
it's fine, but I like to see all the controls available.
As an occasional working musician, I like to play around with all the
possibilities of channels; for me, Kmix and alsamixer show me the
information that I want.
And for recording, of course, I use audacity, which
again I find (for my
own needs) works best with alsa.
I have not used it that often - I am also interested in music, but I have no
time at all. From what I remember jack was a must in combination with
several audio cards. But it is also irrelevant to the original problem
Now if you open pavucontrol you should see your multiple sound cards. is the
one you want to use as default set as "fall back"?
Otherwise it seems it is indeed a problem with kmix and should be handled as
a bug or you try to index the cards and the one becomes 1st from the OS
perspective.
cat /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
options snd_hda_intel index=0
options snd-usb-audio index=1
regards
