How to fix my pulseaudio?

luofeiyu · 06-16-2017, 02:39 AM

No sound on my pc.
My pulseaudio was installed this way.

Code:

sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install pulseaudio-utils libpulse0 libpulsedsp
ls  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio
libpulsecommon-7.1.so  libpulsedsp.so

Here is my config file.

cat ~/.config/pulse/client.conf

Code:

# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## Configuration file for PulseAudio clients. See pulse-client.conf(5) for
## more information. Default values are commented out.  Use either ; or # for
## commenting.

; default-sink =
; default-source =
; default-server =
; default-dbus-server =

; autospawn = yes
; daemon-binary = /usr/bin/pulseaudio
; extra-arguments = --log-target=syslog

; cookie-file =

; enable-shm = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 MiB

; auto-connect-localhost = no
; auto-connect-display = no

Code:

pulseaudio  --start
bash: pulseaudio: command not found

How to fix my pulseaudio?

hydrurga · 06-16-2017, 03:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by luofeiyu

No sound on my pc.
My pulseaudio was installed this way.

Code:

sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install pulseaudio-utils libpulse0 libpulsedsp
ls  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio
libpulsecommon-7.1.so  libpulsedsp.so

I'm not sure I understand this. Why did you install pulseaudio-utils, libpulse0, and libpulsedsp but not the core package pulseaudio itself?

Can you give some background as to what distro you're running and why you installed the pulseaudio components in this way? Jessie should have pulseaudio in its normal repos.

DavidMcCann · 06-16-2017, 12:15 PM

I'd second the last post, but I'd also add:
1. Have you tried the sound configuration tool that most distros have somewhere in the menu? Sometimes the problem is as simple as the volume being set to zero by default (yes, really!)
2. Pulseaudio, once installed, is best handled by using the tool pavucontrol.

If you have further trouble,
1. What does

Code:

aplay -l

reveal? If you have more than one sound device (e.g. mother board and video card), is it showing the desired one as "card 0" ?
2. What modules are loaded?

Code:

cat /proc/asound/modules

Is the one you need there?