Excellent, thanks for that tip, Phillip! Got it fixed now.
Put "autospawn = no" into $HOME/.config/pulse/client.conf, killed PA as you
suggested and everything worked as expected, alsamixer controls the volume
(.asoundrc works perfectly again) and mplayer/flash/MOCP plays through my
usb card.
Andrew.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Philipp Überbacher <murks@email-addr-hiddenrg>
wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:48:22 +0100
> Andrew C <countfuzzball@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> > Speaking of .asoundrc, I had set up my like so (which predictably no
> > longer works, even though my usb card is still at index 0):
> >
> > pcm.!default {
> > type plug
> > slave.pcm "softvol" #make use of softvol
> > }
> >
> > pcm.softvol {
> > type softvol
> > slave {
> > pcm "dmix" #redirect the output to dmix (instead
> > of "hw:0,0")
> > }
> > control {
> > name "PCM" #override the PCM slider to set the
> > softvol volume level globally
> > card 0
> > }
> > }
> >
> > I doubt this would cause a mess up (even so, even *that* is no longer
> > working, my soundcard ignores any changes made by alsamixer).
> >
> > At this point, would I guess there's some pulseaudio weirdness
> > happening? Any ideas how I can use alsa straight up, unless I've
> > somehow been using a pulseaudio-alsa wrapper this entire time.
> >
> > To my mind, it makes absolutely no sense why stuff would be playing
> > out of Card 1, and not Card 0. Or at least why that has suddenly
> > changed to be the default with this upgrade.
> >
> > Andrew.
>
> I'm not sure whether you get direct alsa access while PA is running.
>
> You could disable pulseaudio and try again. I have configured PA
> so that it is only ever started manually by me and I simply use
> 'pulseaudio --start' and 'pulseaudio --kill'. However, depending on
> your distributions setup it might be a PITA to stop PA and keep it
> stopped. You can use 'pulseaudio --check' to see whether it runs, it
> returns 0 if it runs, 1 otherwise. Or just use 'pulseaudio --kill' and
> see whether it throws an error or succeeds because something started PA
> again. This can happen because PA is set to respawn or because some
> program started PA on startup. That's a PITA I don't want to deal with,
> hence my entirely manual setup.
>
> Regards,
> Philipp
>
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