On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:09:07 -0500
Tom Horsley <horsley1953(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 21:49:17 -0500
Doug wrote:
> It may take some serious fiddling
> around with the possibilities in PA
My most annoying PA experience was it doing something
a bit like that all by itself. All I did was apply
updates one day, and suddenly only about half the
media apps on my system were able to make sound.
After days of trying to figure this out, I finally
found that pulse had decided, all by itself, that
some apps should be using the analog out and
other apps should be using the HDMI output. When
I plugged some speakers into the analog out
on the computer, the sound for the "silent" apps
showed up on those speakers.
Another few days of beating it over the head and
using every single sound mixer app I could find to
tell it to use the HDMI output for everything and
I finally got sound back. [ .... ]
With all that trouble : did you try to move the contents of
~/.config/pulse/* to somewhere else, then do something
like restart pulse? If yes: did it help?
And I just had a look at the files in /etc/pulse - the editing
of these settings seem to be non-trivial, for me at least ...
Regards
Wolfgang