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Which is better ALSA or Pulseaudio?
ALSA is unable by itself to be used by multiple applications, so PulseAudio provides this functionality among others. Summarized: ALSA – dealing with the hardware, basically owning it. PulseAudio – a software proxy providing additional featues (mixing, equalizer) between your application and the ALSA/OSS subsystem.
How do you restart pulseaudio Arch?
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- Check if any pulseaudio instance is running: pulseaudio –check. It normally prints no output, just exit code. 0 means running. Mine were not running, so I just advanced to step 3.
- If any instance is running: pulseaudio -k.
- Finally, start pulseaudio again as a daemon: pulseaudio -D.
- Start banshee again and enjoy!
How to install ALSA utils on Arch Linux?
After installing alsa-utils (if you didn’t already), type “alsamixer” into a Terminal and unmute (with the M key) the channels “Master” and “PCM”. Does it have to be before I install anything else then?
How can I get my sound to work with only ALSA?
You could try to have your sound working with only ALSA installed and then add Pulseaudio. In your place I’d remove Pulseaudio and JACK, then check alsamixer. You could try to have your sound working with only ALSA installed and then add Pulseaudio. In your place I’d remove Pulseaudio and JACK, then check alsamixer.
Which is the default sound card for ALSA?
Setting the default sound card using modprobe is universal in that matter. Your HDMI is the default sound card, which is the reason it shows only digital output. I tried that and it kind of works. The second card (the one I want to use) is the only one displayed by alsamixer.
How to enable sound in this fresh arch install?
Go to ‘Master’ then press M and then keep hitting the up key to bring the sound levels up. I do that for any other inputs I want like pcm etc. with the number being how many channels you want to test. You should hear static from each channel in turn. I recommend asoundconf, which will take care of generating a proper .asoundrc .