Questions tagged [pulseaudio]
PulseAudio is a sound system for Linux and other UNIX systems.
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Trying to install blueman but asks to remove pipewire
Recently bluetooth has disappeared from my machine. Its running, but its disappeared from my taskbar and the start menu. As far as I can tell its running anyway.
I am running Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS with ...
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Gnome settings menu vs browser input source
When I want to use my microphone on a website (say Google Meets), there are 2 places I can specify it:
In the Gnome settings panel:
In the website itself, on the browser (ie. https://webcammictest....
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Bit perfect audio on Debian 13
I am trying to install bit perfect audio. Up to and including Debian 11 that was not much of a problem.
However, now I am on Debian 13 (Trixie) and Pulseaudio and Pipewire are giving me a hard time.
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ALSA devices disappeared from OBS Studio after reinstalling it under Flatpak
I have been using OBS studio under Manjaro (archlinux based) OS and it worked all well so far.
Recently I started streaming on Youtube but I noticed that the button "Connect Account" wasn't ...
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Persistent virtual audio cables
Currently running Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS X64
I'm extremely new to linux as a whole so I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. I'm attempting to set up virtual audio cables for recording and I've managed to ...
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Intel irisxe GPU problems on xorg and slowness with audio distortion in zorin os core 17 gnome
I have a hp laptop 15s fq as my main pc and from the moment I started using it, I had many problems.
Im asking here because sadly I had no luck on zorin forums and I was wondering if there is ...
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Built-in audio has stopped working in Debian 12.11 on Lenovo P51 Laptop
The sound configuration has spontaneously stopped working on my Linux laptop. I do not know the cause, or how to fix it.
Symptoms:
In the PulseAudio control panel, I can set Built-in Audio to
Analog ...
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No audio or video if machine booted without display on; can this be forced?
I have a Beelink SER3 mini-pC running Debian 12, fully patched. This machine is based on the AMD Ryzen 7 3750H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx.
The HDMI port is plugged into a Denon AVR receiver, and ...
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Duplicate an audio channel and re-route it to another channel in real time
Let's say I want to have my Left channel copied and overwritten to the Right channel. Is this possible, in real time?
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Pop_OS defaults to headphones when headphones are not connected, it should switch to built-in laptop speakers by default
All of a sudden, my laptop decided to detect headphones when no headphones are connected.
I have tried using pavucontrol which shows speakers (unavailable). Even though moving the volume makes the ...
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sound disappears after changing from systemd to SysV init
After changing my Debian OS (it uses a Devuan repo), the sound disappears as usual.
At first I install OpenRC:
sudo apt install openrc sysvinit-core
sudo reboot
sudo apt install elogind libpam-...
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Where to set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR per user?
So I ran into the following interesting problem:
I tried to define XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in my .bashrc as follows:
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=$MY_HOME/.local/share
After doing this I noticed my pactl cli ...
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Why Pulseaudio won't start?
I tried reinstalling that lib and cleaning ./config/pulse but nothing helped.Also, running pavucontrol gives an error related to PulseAudio. Is it possible for audio to be played only via also without ...
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How do I play multiple different audio files to multiple different speakers using USB soundcards?
I have several 6 different audio files that I'd like to send to 6 different speakers, since I don't have a USB interface with 6 different channels, I would like to use 2 different USB soundcards along ...
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How can I selectively control system volume by frequency range (i.e. have an equalizer)?
Sometimes I listen to some audio which has its base/lower-frequencies too weak and its mid-range higher, or the other way around. When that happens, I find myself turning the volume up, then down, ...
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