On 29/10/2020 05.07, stan via users wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:19:59 +1100
> Eyal Lebedinsky <fedora@eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
>
>> This is up-to-date f32 amd64.
>>
>> From time to time I find that I do not have sound, and then
>> pavucontrol shows no configuration is available. Sound is via HDMI to
>> the monitor (TV). The internal sound device is not used.
>>
>> So far the only way out I found is to log out/in, but this is not
>> ideal. Is there a way to make the system (I suspect it is X) see the
>> sound device and enable it? Maybe with a udev command?
> [snip]
>> /sys/devices/virtual/sound/seq
>> /sys/devices/virtual/sound/timer
>>
>> When I have no sound I am missing the last two devices.
>>
>> In case it is related, there is also a KVM instance running on this
>> machine.
>>
>
> Does it fix it if you run
> pulseaudio --start
> That should re-initialize pulseaudio, picking up available devices. If
> the problem is some kind of race condition between X and pulseaudio as
> it seems to be because it is intermittent, this should remedy it.
I am rather sure I tried this to no avail. Next time this happens I will keep
a detailed record of all the actions I take and the results.
> I don't think this is directly caused by X, as X should not be creating
> virtual sound devices. But, I'm no expert.
I suspect X, me not being an expert, because this is sound over HDMI which X manages.
Regards,
i had this too, a reinstall of F32 fixed it. drove me crazy as i could not find the failure...
--
Eyal Lebedinsky (fedora@eyal.emu.id.au)
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