PulseAudio, Slackware 14.2, AudioQuest DragonFly USB

dimm0k · 08-31-2016, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Richard Cranium

Well, yeah, but your desktop environment should run pulseaudio under your user id.

Code:

0 ✓ cranium@cranium ~ $ ps -ef | grep pulse
cranium     3372  3169  0 20:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libpulseaudio-plugin.so 17 20971565 pulseaudio PulseAudio Plugin Adjust the audio volume of the PulseAudio sound system
cranium     3384     1  0 20:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
cranium     3388  3384  0 20:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
cranium     5429  5003  0 20:44 pts/0    00:00:00 grep pulse
0 ✓ cranium@cranium ~ $

I'm running XFCE.

thanks! apparently I was running the pulseaudio commands as root, rather than as user since I'm logged into XFCE as such. Suffice it to say, root was not running pulseaudio so it wasn't seeing anything to kill or start!

question now is, why does the USB audio card keep dropping in PulseAudio! I had it connected this morning without ever removing it and now it's missing in the mixer...

Rinndalir · 09-01-2016, 06:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dimm0k

apparently I was running the pulseaudio commands as root, rather than as user since I'm logged into XFCE as such. Suffice it to say, root was not running pulseaudio so it wasn't seeing anything to kill or start!

question now is, why does the USB audio card keep dropping in PulseAudio! I had it connected this morning without ever removing it and now it's missing in the mixer...

Hard to understand. Are you logged into xfce as root?

Most likely your problems are born out of doing things as root which is not usually expected (definitely not recommended). So permissions on things might be messed up. You also need to confirm that your regular user id is a member of the correct groups to allow access audio devices, etc.

This is linux101 stuff.

dimm0k · 09-01-2016, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Rinndalir

Hard to understand. Are you logged into xfce as root?

Most likely your problems are born out of doing things as root which is not usually expected (definitely not recommended). So permissions on things might be messed up. You also need to confirm that your regular user id is a member of the correct groups to allow access audio devices, etc.

This is linux101 stuff.

pretty sure if permissions were an issue that it wouldn't work at all, but in my case it was working for a good part of the day and when I returned home it stopped. I'm not logged in as root, but as a user... I was merely trying to say that because I was logged in as a user that running 'pulseaudio -k' as root didn't see the pulseaudio daemon. as for groups, my user is in the audio group. should it also be in the pulse group?

Rinndalir · 09-02-2016, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by dimm0k

pretty sure if permissions were an issue that it wouldn't work at all, but in my case it was working for a good part of the day and when I returned home it stopped.

What's "it"? Pulseaudio? Audio in general? Maybe it has logs. Check its logs. It might tell what its problem is, if it wrote logs.