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jb1277976_
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 Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:58 am Post subject: [Solved] Headphones not working |
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Hello,
Trying to get headphones working. Audio through speakers and mic are working Using Pro Profile from pulseaudio and alsa
Here is some information
1. dmesg - https://termbin.com/k7tg
2. pa-info - https://termbin.com/8kjx
3. emerge-info - https://bpa.st/PIZA
Any help is appreciated
~ Joe
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flexibeast
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:14 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for sharing the output of those commands. 
The output from pa-info:
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> pidof pulseaudio
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> pulseaudio --version
/usr/bin/pa-info: line 57: pulseaudio: command not found
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says that Pulse isn't actually running - `pidof` should have shown the PID of the relevant process - which would suggest that the audio you're getting is purely due to ALSA.
How are you starting (or trying to start) PulseAudio? Can you confirm that the `media-sound/pulseaudio` and `media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon` packages are installed? (`pa-info` is provided by `media-libs/libpulse`). And, given that you have `elogind` in your USE, i presume you're using OpenRC rather than systemd? |
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jb1277976_
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| flexibeast wrote: | Thanks for sharing the output of those commands.
The output from pa-info:
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> pidof pulseaudio
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> pulseaudio --version
/usr/bin/pa-info: line 57: pulseaudio: command not found
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says that Pulse isn't actually running - `pidof` should have shown the PID of the relevant process - which would suggest that the audio you're getting is purely due to ALSA.
How are you starting (or trying to start) PulseAudio? Can you confirm that the `media-sound/pulseaudio` and `media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon` packages are installed? (`pa-info` is provided by `media-libs/libpulse`). And, given that you have `elogind` in your USE, i presume you're using OpenRC rather than systemd? |
Yes I'm using OpenRc
I remember from the install putting pulsesaudio and alsa in make.conf also I installed pavucontrol don't know if that installed pulsesaudio. I will check when I'm at my laptop.
Also pipewire is installed and I think that where I got the profile from so I can get sound. I remember deinstalling pulseaudio-daemon
Thanks again |
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flexibeast
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 5:12 am Post subject: |
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Okay, well, a few things:
* If you're wanting to use PulseAudio as your sound server, you'll need the `pulseaudio-daemon` package installed. This will get pulled in when installing the `pulseaudio` meta-package. `pavucontrol` doesn't have a dependency on `pulseaudio` (only on `libpulse`), so the `pulseaudio` package won't have been automatically pulled in when you installed `pavucontrol`.
* Be careful with having PipeWire stuff and PulseAudio stuff installed at the same time; in certain contexts, problems can arise due to them fighting over which one is providing a sound server, particularly if something else is automatically starting (or trying to start) them. i would suggest that, if you no longer want/need PipeWire, you should remove the `pipewire` package before installing the `pulseaudio-daemon` package.
* i no longer use Pulse as my sound server, and instead use PipeWire, but based on the wiki page for PulseAudio, and given that you're running XFCE, you should install `xfce-extra/xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin` (if it's not already installed), in addition to `pulseaudio-daemon`, for XFCE to (hopefully) autostart Pulse |
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garrison
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 5:34 am Post subject: |
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Please do not run pa-info as root, that would not have access to sound server. To include more alsa info please install alsa-utils package.
The issue with pulseaudio was that neither default alsa card profile nor current alsa-ucm-conf provide support for speakers of that Google Dragonair chromebook model.
Pipewire sound server pro audio profile provides access to bare hardware devices, which allowed using 'hw:0,5' for speakers. Please test headphones with 'speaker-test -t wav -c 2 -D hw:0,1' |
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flexibeast
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 5:52 am Post subject: |
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| garrison wrote: | | Please do not run pa-info as root, that would not have access to sound server. |
No indeed, but i seem to be missing where in the `pa-info` output it shows that it's been run as root; for my own future reference, could you point me to it, please? |
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jb1277976_
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:04 am Post subject: |
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| flexibeast wrote: | Okay, well, a few things:
* If you're wanting to use PulseAudio as your sound server, you'll need the `pulseaudio-daemon` package installed. This will get pulled in when installing the `pulseaudio` meta-package. `pavucontrol` doesn't have a dependency on `pulseaudio` (only on `libpulse`), so the `pulseaudio` package won't have been automatically pulled in when you installed `pavucontrol`.
* Be careful with having PipeWire stuff and PulseAudio stuff installed at the same time; in certain contexts, problems can arise due to them fighting over which one is providing a sound server, particularly if something else is automatically starting (or trying to start) them. i would suggest that, if you no longer want/need PipeWire, you should remove the `pipewire` package before installing the `pulseaudio-daemon` package.
* i no longer use Pulse as my sound server, and instead use PipeWire, but based on the wiki page for PulseAudio, and given that you're running XFCE, you should install `xfce-extra/xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin` (if it's not already installed), in addition to `pulseaudio-daemon`, for XFCE to (hopefully) autostart Pulse |
Thanks for the reply
What do you recommend I do when I sit down at my laptop and start troubleshooting? Like first steps?
pa-info non root - https://termbin.com/22hz |
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jb1277976_
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:46 am Post subject: |
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| garrison wrote: | Please do not run pa-info as root, that would not have access to sound server. To include more alsa info please install alsa-utils package.
The issue with pulseaudio was that neither default alsa card profile nor current alsa-ucm-conf provide support for speakers of that Google Dragonair chromebook model.
Pipewire sound server pro audio profile provides access to bare hardware devices, which allowed using 'hw:0,5' for speakers. Please test headphones with 'speaker-test -t wav -c 2 -D hw:0,1' |
I'm at my laptop right now.
I'm installing pulseauiod-daemon and removing pipewire will reboot then go from there and include alsa-ucm-conf
I've been reading all over Gentoo forums, reddit Linux forums and communities and they talk about pipewire is probably the best replacement for pulseaudio. all i know is when I had pipewire everything just worked expect headphones. i can probably use a usb dongle for that or just keep researching.
Thanks all for the help but I've removed pulseaudio from my system
Thanks
~ Joe B |
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garrison
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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Hard to say without alsa-utils installed (which brings alsa-info.sh used by pa-info) but you may try to play to 'Port1' which is hw:0,0
Or maybe try speaker test again, 'speaker-test -t wav -c 2 -D hw:0,0' that is probably either line out or headphones port. |
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