[Solved] Pulseaudio module only read after restarting daemon

paraw · Last edited by paraw on Sat Dec 28, 2024 6:22 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi all, I have a weird problem, or, better, more of an inconvenience than a problem. In my configuration, I need to remap my speakers. So, I added the line

garrison · Apprentice Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 267

Guess it is read fine on each restart but remapping fails for the first time due to referenced master is not ready yet. No way to wait for devices is available (noone implemented that stuff) so maybe try delaying your load-module command, like do this via pactl with a few seconds delay.

paraw · Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2024 8:54 am Post subject:

That feels very reasonable. So, I wonder whether this could be achieved via an autostart script that sleeps a number of seconds and then loads the module. My question is: how do I load the module with the options via pactl? (I'm really not an expert of pulseaudio...)

garrison · Apprentice Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 267

you just repeat that whole line as argument to pactl, it should work
you can try that once by hand, comment out that line in default.pa, repeat that kde login step which leaded to your issue, then run pactl with those args in terminal and see if it works

you probably can create a script which would sleep for a few seconds then run pactl with those args, and run that script in background at desktop start time

paraw · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 6:21 pm Post subject:

Yes, that's what I had in mind, and yes, that worked. I still have to put a serious delay, like 30 seconds, but this is not a problem. I'm adding "solved" in the title. Thanks!