PulseAudio is a sound system for Linux and other UNIX systems.
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Is there any gnome-shell mixer icon relying on alsa and not pulseaudio?
So, long story short, when I installed Mint 12 on my Dell laptop I realized my HDA-intel sound board have problems with pulseaudio. I uninstalled pulseaudio and got my sound back, but removing ...
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Set default sound card in Pulse Audio
I have two soundcards on my systems and pulseaudio always picks the wrong one. How do I set up the default soundcard in the pulse audio preferences?
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Pulseaudio, Phonon, KDE and forwarding sound to headset
Some days ago I bought headet (Jabra BT2045) and I want to use it in Skype voicechat and for example to forward to it another sound streams from my KDE.
I've successfully paired and setup as headset ...
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Sound volume control does not work in Ubuntu
My sound volume control does not work when I'm logged in with my regular user, though the sound works correctly. What's weirder is that the sound control works when I'm logged in as guest.
With my ...
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Do you recognize this audio panel?
Wondering if anyone recognizes the app in the images presented at the top of this question?
Change PulseAudio Input/Output from Shell?
I loaded Fedora 18 - MATE and don't see this app. Your ...
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Sending to two bluetooth speakers at once
Is it possible to send the same audio signal to two different Bluetooth speakers at once from a single source?
I remember reading somewhere that it's possible to send audio to two different sinks ...
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Allow audio from only one application
I'd like to only allow audio from a certain application. That is, I'd like to have audio turned off by default for new programs.
I'm aware that in PulseAudio one can mute programs, but the problem ...
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Stream system audio through mpd
I use mpd to stream music to my phone (connected to Hi-Fi) via http.
Yet, this only works for songs in my mpd database. I oftentimes want to play stuff in my browser and would like that to be ...
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Adding usb audio device causes no sound with flash player on archlinux x86_64 with pulseaudio
I added two USB audio devices (from my broken i686 archlinux) to my x86_64 systemd archlinux, a Logitech webcam/mike and a Logitech mike. After this, no sound from flashplugin, either Firefox 11.2… ...
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Pulseaudio/X permission other user/SSH
My user user1 is running a graphical X session with pulse configured per-user.
I need to run a graphical program that uses audio with user2.
If I do su user2; program program doesn't start and I ...
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Endless pulseaudio error logging: failed to acquire autospawn lock
I have an issue with pulseaudio logging error messages in a loop and wonder how I can fix them:
Aug 7 20:22:17 s pulseaudio[25638]: lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock.
Aug 7 20:22:17 s ...
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Debian 6: media keys in gnome-settings-daemon don't work
I am running a minimal Debian 6 x86_64 setup with pulseaudio, alsa and gnome-settings-daemon. Whenever I press a media key, gnome-settings-daemon spits the following out to stderr:
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Choppy sound with flashpayer
After a number of updates, including upgrading to flashplayer 11 and kernel 3.8.2 sound from flashplayer and skype has become choppy.
Setup
In my setup I have .ascoundrc set up to use pulseaudio ...
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Setting up surround sound with optical out
I have centos 6.3 running on this pc. the built in sound card is detected normally and is a 7.1 card with all speakers listed. It includes a optical out as well as hdmi for the built in video. It ...
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Making a Linux audio recording device available on a Windows 7 PC over network
I would like to use my headset's microphone both on my Linux laptop and a Windows 7 PC simultaneously, for different VoIP applications. I'm currently running Ubuntu with PulseAudio on the laptop to ...
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use pacmd to undo these changes to pulseaudio sink settings
Recently I discovered this question and answer on askubuntu.com which, while useful, also rendered my sound system unusable for practical purposes.
The commands
pactl load-module module-null-sink ...
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Audio through DisplayPort on Dell XPS 13 L322x (Intel GMA 4000)
I have the recently released Dell XPS 13 (L322x) and have successfully installed Linux Mint 14 alongside the pre-installed Windows 8. When connecting and external monitor using a DisplayPort to HDMI ...
