On 11/23/17, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
On 11/23/2017 01:59 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> I ended up removing pulseaudio but couldn't get alsa to work either,
> so I now have a sound-less system just like in my AMD 386 running OS/2
> back in 1993 before the SoundBlaster 16 arrived.
If ALSA isn't working, then PulseAudio won't either since it requires a
functioning audio device.
Sound originally worked.... on the system's default analog audio output.
It was trying to get the audio-over-HDMI part working which messed up
the config.
And as far as I know, there isn't a "rebuild this system's audio
config" bash script.
Something like HP's HPLIP that scans the hardware at the lowest level
and begins configuring everything.
Not to mention the apparent lack of a set-default-audio-device.sh
script that allows you to effortlessly change the audio device when
there's more than one (eg the built-in-one + an external USB audio
device).
If there's something like that, I'd like to know about it. Perhaps
this could be a job for the LSB project?
Just thinking aloud...
FC